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In the recent past Gunter felt the need to re-architect the DICOM toolkit. Performance, memory usage, flexibility, and implicity simplicity (removing the JSR-motivated interface layer) were all driving factors in this decision. This new version of the toolkit has been labeled dcm4che2 (or dcm4che-2.x). With this version of the toolkit, Gunter has truly raised the bar for Java DICOM toolkits.
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