Quick Dicom Toolkit Files

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\f0\b\fs24 \cf0 About
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iiDicom is an Objective C Framework to provide Dicom image and dictionary reading capabilities to Mac OS X.\
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It is designed to be easy to use and abstracts away much of the data / implementation issues with using the Dicom format.  You can quickly write\
applications to read dicom files and display them.  The Dicom data is supplied to \
the programmer using typical Cocoa objects like NSImage, CGImageRef and NSDictionary.  In addition you can also obtain access to the raw image data if\
desired.\
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The core of the iiDicom Framework is a group of classes built in layers on top of each other:\
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\ul iiDcmDictionary:\ulnone  Provides the Dicom dataset and information dictionaries as an NSDictionary.\
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\ul iiDcmSlice:\ulnone  Represents one Dicom file (slice) on disk and has methods to access image data as an NSImage, CGImageRef and raw format.\
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\ul iiDcmSeries:\ulnone  Contains an NSArray of iiDcmSlices representing a 3D volume.  Also provides a method to obtain the raw data as a 3d volume.\
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\ul iiDcmFileset:\ulnone  When provided with files or folders, this class analyzes all the slices contained and separates them into iiDcmSeries.\
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You are not restricted to accessing your data at the highest level or abstraction, you may access your data at any point in the class hierarchy depending on your needs.\
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Both Garbage Collection (Leopard only) and Non-Garbage Collection are supported.\
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iiDicom Framework is the core of the Quick Dicom package which provides a Dicom File Analyzer, Spotlight / QuickLook / Quartz Composer Plugins and a Window Leveling Core Image Filter on Leopard as well as a pre-compiled iiDicom Framework (Tiger and Leopard).\
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If you wish to use iiDicom Framework in your project, we recommend that you  download the Quick Dicom package to avoid having to compile the project yourself.\
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The iiDicom Framework also comes with complete Python Support (Leopard Only),\
available in the Quick Dicom package.\
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\b Documentation
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Podcasts detailing iiDicom / Quick Dicom and their usage can be found at:\
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	{\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.imaginginformatics.ca/open-source/"}}{\fldrslt http://www.imaginginformatics.ca/open-source}}\
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There is also additional documentation contained within the header files in the iiDicom framework.\
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See Examples/README.rtf for example projects using the iiDicom Framework\
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\b Requirements
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	Mac OS X Leopard or Mac OS X Tiger\
	(Intel or PowerPC)\
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\b Credit
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The iiDicom Framework and Quick Dicom is free to use, however if you use the them in your project we would appreciate credit in your about box and a link to our website:\
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	{\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.imaginginformatics.ca/"}}{\fldrslt http://www.imaginginformatics.ca}}\
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Also, we would appreciate a short email to:  quickdicom@imaginginformatics.ca briefly detailing your usage.  If you provide a link to your project in the email (open source or commercial), then we will provide a link back to you under "Projects using iiDicom / Quick Dicom".\
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