DICOM viewing software allows radiology trainees and consultants to view and manipulate medical images (such as radiographs or MRI scans) on their own PC, laptop or tablet. It is the standard for handling, storing, printing, and transmitting information in medical imaging.

DICOMDIR directory files are useful in medical software applications because they allow organized access to images and information sets that come from radiological studies that are stored in conformance with the digital imaging and communication in medicine (DICOM) standard. DICOM stands for ‘Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine’. During the medical application software development, specialized programming libraries are commonly used in order to solve the requirements of computation and scientific visualization. 3 A window opens, select the directory containing the file DICOMDIR to be loaded and click Open. However, these libraries do not provide suitable tools for reading DICOMDIR files, making necessary the implementation of a flexible tool for reading these files, which can be also easily integrated into applications under development. To solve this problem, this work introduces an object-oriented design and an open-source implementation for such reading tool. When you have a set of files to burn on CD and for those you create the DICOMDIR file. It produces an output data tree containing the information of the DICOM images and their related radiological studies, which can be browsed easily in a structured way through navigation interfaces coupled to it.

What is a dicomdir file