Introduction
dcm4che is a high performance, open source implementation of the DICOM standard. It is developed in the Java programming language. Version 2.x of this toolkit (which is what this wiki space covers) is the next generation of the popular dcm4che-1.x DICOM toolkit. The toolkit has undergone a re-architecting with an improvement over the 1.x versions with regards to speed, memory usage, and a more robust DICOM dictionary implementation.
The best way to get started with the toolkit is to use, and examine the code of, the sample applications documented below. These are full featured applications that are able to be used in a stand-alone fashion, and demonstrate the capabilities of the toolkit.
The dcm4che toolkit implements the DICOM 2006 standard. As such, it is beneficial to the user that they have a good understanding of that standard.