DCMTK is a collection of libraries and applications implementing large parts of the DICOM standard. DCMTK includes software for examining, constructing and converting DICOM image files, handling offline media, sending and receiving images over a network connection, as well as demonstrative image storage and worklist servers. DCMTK comes in complete source code and is written in a mixture of ANSI C and C++. WWW: http://dicom.offis.de/dcmtk.php.en