GDCM is an open source DICOM library. It is meant to deal with DICOM files
(as specified in part 10 of the DICOM standard). It offers some compatibility
with ACR-NEMA 1.0 & 2.0 files (raw files). It is written in C++ and offers
wrapping to other target languages such as Python, C#, Java and PHP.

WWW: http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/