# DICOM Tool Kit in Ruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dicom-tool-kit-in-ruby/65068>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 9, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dicom-tool-kit-in-ruby/65068 "2006-02-09T17:36:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![mac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mac)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dicom-tool-kit-in-ruby/65068/1 "2006-02-09T17:36:21Z")

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Good Morning,  
Just wanted to let people know that I am working on a DICOM tool kit in  
Ruby. So far I have completed classes for reading in DICOM images and  
dumping the header. I have the netwrok layer coded completely and can do  
association negotiation and receive images and save them to the disk. I  
am  
working on Query/Retrieve now. I am hoping that by Mid march I will have  
a  
prety much working DICOM SCP. I plan to release it to the public at that  
time. If anybody is interested in working with me in completing this  
tool  
kit, let me know. At some point I will need some help.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![mac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mac)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dicom-tool-kit-in-ruby/65068/2 "2006-02-09T18:23:26Z")

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Sounds really interesting, thanks for your work. Any plans on the  
license?

Unfortunately, I don’t have time to help out with this just now, but  
I’ll  
definitely be keeping an eye on this - it happens to have cropped at an  
excellent time 🙂

Mark

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**Author:** ![mac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mac)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dicom-tool-kit-in-ruby/65068/3 "2006-02-09T20:02:38Z")

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I will release it on Ruby license, open source. I have over 10 years  
DICOM  
experience and I wanted to learn Ruby, so I wrote the tool kit.

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**Author:** ![mac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mac)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 1:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dicom-tool-kit-in-ruby/65068/4 "2006-02-10T13:40:51Z")

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Go on! Very, very nice. Are there any websites about your project?

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**Author:** ![mac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mac)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dicom-tool-kit-in-ruby/65068/5 "2006-02-10T19:25:12Z")

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I dont have any web site yet, but will soon. I want this project to be  
at  
least at 0.1 release. Thanks for the encouragement.

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**Author:** ![mac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mac)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dicom-tool-kit-in-ruby/65068/6 "2006-02-10T22:11:08Z")

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mac schrieb:

> I dont have any web site yet, but will soon. I want this project to be at  
> least at 0.1 release. Thanks for the encouragement.

Great! Please post an annoucement, I’ll looking for it. Finally a usage  
of ruby in medical environment 😉 I’ll have to write my bachelor thesis  
next year in medical computer science. I hope that I can do it the ruby  
way 😉

Greetings,

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**Author:** ![mac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mac)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dicom-tool-kit-in-ruby/65068/7 "2006-02-10T03:03:51Z")

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Mac,

I am starting to learn Ruby as well and am interested in this project -  
I could probably help with testing & debugging etc.

Regards,

Phil.

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 04:02 +0900, mac wrote:

> > a
> > 
> > > prety much working DICOM SCP. I plan to release it to the public at that  
> > > time. If anybody is interested in working with me in completing this  
> > > tool  
> > > kit, let me know. At some point I will need some help.
> > > 
> > > Thanks.

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