LEADTOOLS provides extensive support for the DICOM Communication Protocol. This specifies requirements for transferring DICOM data and messages across an associated network connection. Create/Manage/Destroy DICOM Network connections (secure or un-secure), send DICOM messages, receive DICOM messages, create an Application Entity (AE) that serves as either the Service Class Provider (SCP), Services Class User (SCU) or both.

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging includes a medical image display container with built-in tools normally present in a radiology image viewer, to dramatically reduce development time. The Medical Image Viewer provides support for displaying one or more images and for the real-time manipulation of one or more images.

LEADTOOS provides complete support for industry-standard medical imaging protocols, giving programmers access to medical images retrieved from the widest possible variety of digital imaging modalities.

The PACS Framework is a framework for easily creating DICOM-based servers. The framework consists of a Windows Service (Leadtools.Dicom.Service.exe) that implements a user-defined DICOM service. The Windows Service provides the following features: Handles DICOM connections, Handles DICOM association negotiation, Supports DICOM Message addins that allow user-supplied addins to respond to DICOM messages.