# dcmtk-basic-example

**Repository Path**: somous/dcmtk-basic-example

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- **Created**: 2025-11-30
- **Last Updated**: 2025-11-30

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## README

# dcmtk-basic-example

dcmtk-basic-example demonstrats how to compile, link and include [dcmtk](http://dicom.offis.de/dcmtk.php.en) 3.6.0 toolkit for developing C++11 programs to process DICOM images. The example was developed and tested on Ubuntu 14.04.  

## motivation

When wanting to use dcmtk libraries in my own C++ code, I noticed that basic examples how to link and use dcmtk in Ubuntu 14.04 are scarse. Thus, I decided to make this simple example, to help you guys get started with dcmtk. 


## Compilation and installation (Ubuntu 14.04)

#### Dependencies:
```bash
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libdcmtk2-dev
```


#### Get the source code
```bash
git clone https://github.com/marcinwol/dcmtk-basic-example
cd dcmtk-basic-example
```

#### Compile
```bash
cmake .
make
```

#### Download example DICOM images
For this example C++11 program, I used images avaliable [here](http://www.pcir.org/researchers/77654033_20010101.html)

Still being in the dcmtk-basic-example:
```bash
wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/w28rorcufnaddua/77654033_20010101.tar.bz2
mkdir DCMIMAGES
tar -xjvf 77654033_20010101.tar.bz2 -C DCMIMAGES/
rm 77654033_20010101.tar.bz2
```

#### Run the code
```bash
./testDCMTK
```
The output should be:
```bash
Patient name is: Doe^Archibald
Program finish.
```