ANNOUNCEMENT

The "DICOM Security Demonstration: Secure Transport Connections and Digital 
Signatures" application (DICOMscope 3.5.1) which has been presented at RSNA
2000 infoRAD and ECR 2001 is now publicly available and can be downloaded
via Internet.


FEATURES

- Reads and displays uncompressed monochrome DICOM images of all modalities
  and image SOP classes.
- Supports calibration of the display device (monitor) according to the DICOM
  Grayscale Standard Display Function, either in hardware or in software.
- Creates, reads, writes and updates Grayscale Softcopy Presentation State
  objects.
- Prints on a remote printer (Basic Grayscale Print SCP) and supports the
  optional Presentation LUT SOP Class that enables hardcopy display
  consistency.
- Acts as a "virtual printer" (Basic Grayscale Print SCP) and receives print
  jobs from remote print clients.  Print jobs are stored in the local database
  and can be visualized on-screen.
- Sends and receives DICOM objects via the DICOM Storage Service Class.  Both
  conventional DICOM communication and secure network connections conforming
  to the DICOM Basic TLS Secure Transport Connection Profile are supported.
- Reads, writes and updates Structured Reports (SR) of all three SR SOP Classes
  defined in NEMA PS.3-2000.  Structured Reports can be displayed and edited.
- Verifies Digital Signatures contained in DICOM images, presentation states
  and structured reports.  Allows to create one or more Digital Signatures on
  SR documents.


PACKAGES

The Windows binaries and the full source code (Java and C/C++) can be found at 
the following download sites:

   http://www.microtherapy.de/go/dicomscope/
   ftp://dicom.offis.de/pub/dicom/offis/software/dscope/

DICOMscope application for Microsoft Windows:
   dswin351.exe (6.3 MB), Self-extracting archive with installer
   dswin351.zip (6.3 MB), ZIP-compressed archive with installer

Source code:
   dcmtk350.zip (2.7 MB), DICOM Toolkit (C/C++)
   dsgui351.zip (1.8 MB), User interface (Java) and supporting files

Additional DICOM objects:
   srdoc101.zip (9.0 MB), Structured Reports with associated images

Documentation (also included in the binary and Java package):
   dsum351.pdf  (1.0 MB), DICOMscope 3.5 User Manual
   dscs351.pdf  (0.4 MB), DICOMscope 3.5 Conformance Statement
   
Description on demonstrations:
   rsna00ho.pdf (0.2 MB), Handout prepared for RSNA 2000 infoRAD
   ecr01ho.pdf  (0.2 MB), Handout prepared for ECR 2001

In order to run the application you need to install JDK/JRE 1.3 first
(e.g. download from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/).

The application is known to run on other platforms (such as Linux or
Solaris) as well but currently there is no binary distribution apart
from that for Windows.  Please download the source code packages and
follow the compilation instructions in the user manual.


Have fun!
The RSNA 2000 / ECR 2001 DICOM Security Demo Team, 2001-06-18

Last update: 2001-07-27