User:Marco Kemper

DVTk is an Open Source project for testing, validating and diagnosing communication protocols and scenario's in medical environments. It supports DICOM, HL7 and IHE integration profiles.

History

The history of DVTk goes back to 1997. Within the ARC group (Architecture Re-use and Communications) of Philips the first version of the Validation Test Suite (VTS) was developed. This was a DICOM Validation tool with a command line interface. Based on this, later on the ADVT (AgfaAgfa DICOM Validation Tool) was created. This was the first tool with a Graphical User Interface that made DICOM validation more pleasant.

Because Philips and Agfa wanted to join forces, in 2001 their cooperation became a fact and the first version of DVT (1.2) was born in 2002.

After major redesign and improvements DVT 2.1 was released in June 2005. This version was the transition of the appliation from the Philips-AGFA cooperation project to the Open Source community.

In 2006, ICT joined the DVTk Open Source project as the third participating company next to Philips and Agfa.

In 2007, DVTk started participating in the IHE Gazelle project by supplying an External Validation Service (DICOM Validation Web Service).

In 2008, Services for the DVTk Open Source project were introduced.

DVTk based DICOM application

• DICOM Anonymizer
• DICOM Compare
• DICOM Editor
• DICOM Network Analyzer
• DICOM Viewer and Validator
• DVT
• Modality Emulator
• Query Retrieve SCP Emulator
• RIS Emulator
• Storage SCP Emulator
• Storage SCU Emulator

External links

• Main page of the DVTk website
• Download page of DVTk based DICOM applications
• The DVTk library and DVTk based applications hosted on SourceForge
• Article "Mastering DICOM with DVTk" on Journal of Digital Imaging