dicom-dump package for Atom

Those working with DICOM often (always!) need to be able to quickly view the content of DICOM data.

Several tools are available for this task, however some of the popular tools commonly used provide only the command line interface. It is often desirable to have a convenient search interface, or to be able to collapse sub-section of the DICOM hierarchy.

We have recently developed a plugin for the Atom editor (package, in the nomenclature of Atom) that provides a convenient interface within the editor to the output produced by the DCMTK DICOM dump tools. Atom is a an extensible, versatile, free open source modern editor brought to you by GitHub.

Once dicom-dump package is installed and properly configured with your local installation of DCMTK tools, you can open any DICOM file in Atom from command line, or by dropping the file into the editor window, and access the functionality demonstrated above. You can access both dcmdump (view the DICOM file dump at the attribute level) and dsrdump (view the DICOM file dump at the level of Structured Report content tree) command line tools of DCMTK using the interface of this package.

As always, the source code of this package is open and we welcome your contributions to further improve its functionality!