What is Dcmdjpeg?
Dcmdjpeg is a part of DCMTK, the DICOM Tool Kit made by OFFIS. While the tool kit contains many components, the only one that I've adopted is Dcmdjpeg, the DICOM JPEG decompressor. The vast majority of freely available and home-grown DICOM tools can only handle the native image data while some PACS and scanner systems insist on exporting encapsulated (or compressed) DICOM files.
Dcmdjpeg is very straigth-forward and so far it has proven to give reliable output when comparing the encapsulated data and the (converted) native data side-by-side in eFilm.
Download
You should really download DCMTK from the OFFIS website. However, I make available a selection of binaries here, more for my convenience then anything else.
- DCMDJPEG.EXE - Win32 binary;
- dcmdjpeg.linux - Linux x86 static binary (RH 7.3);
- dcmdjpeg.osx - OS X binary (compiled on Panther).