The Papyrus toolkit 3 is a library of C routines that greatly eases the process of reading and writting DICOM, DICOMDIR and Papyrus files. It is available for the Windows, Macintosh and Unix plateforms.

The Papyrus toolkit 3 conforms to part 10 of the DICOM standard build by the ACR/NEMA which is the actual standard for digital imaging in radiology.

The Papyrus toolkit 3 is OSI Certified Open Source Software.
OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.

The Papyrus toolkit 3 is now distributed in Open Source mode under the GNU Lesser General Public License (usually known as LGPL). This way you are free to download the Papyrus toolkit 3 and to use it for your developements.

The DICOM web site
The DICOM standard part 1 to 15.
The ACR site
The NEMA site
Open Source Initiative
GNU Lesser General Public License

Papyrus toolkit v.3 Windows version
Papyrus toolkit v.3 Macintosh version
Papyrus toolkit v.3 Unix version

Papyrus toolkit v.3 Specifications
Papyrus toolkit v.3 Users Manual

Sample DICOM and Papyrus images