DVTk 工具介绍

DVTk 是一个测试DCOM通讯的工具，下面介绍一下这个工具。

DVTK官网地址：http://www.dvtk.org/

官方录制的帮助：http://dicom.dvtk.org/uploads/Files/dicom/Documentation/001_2009-06-08.swf

• What is DVTk?

  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. The applications from the DVTk Project are must haves for software developers, test engineers and service engineers that work in the healthcare domain. The DVTk project can save you time in your daily work and bring products and services to a higher quality level. Start using DVTk today and see what DVTk can do for you, Explore the new dimension of Integration Testing.

• 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 (Agfa 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 tool from the Philips-AGFA cooperation project to the Open Source community.

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

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

  In the beginning of 2009, Agfa left the DVTk Open Source project.

• Downloads

  The downloads of DVTk based applications are devided over different domains. Currently these domains are DICOM and IHE.

  To see the overview of all DVTk based DICOM applications, follow the link DICOM Downloads.

  To see the overview of all DVTk based IHE applications, follow the link IHE Downloads.