DICOM is a large and sometimes confusing imaging data format.
In the other pages in this series we try and document our understanding of various aspects of DICOM relevant to converting to formats such as NIfTI .
There are a large number of DICOM image conversion programs already, partly because it is a complicated format with features that vary from manufacturer to manufacturer.
We use the excellent PyDICOM as our back-end for reading DICOM.
Here is a selected list of other tools and relevant resources: