This compression improves the storage, transmission, and archiving costs. The Medical Compression Toolkit contains five different compression methods, each intended to address different needs within the medical imaging community. Each of the different compression methods provides a varying degree of speed, compression, or lossiness. The Medical Compression Toolkit provides access of the compression methods with support for up to 16 bits or 65,000 shades of gray. Each toolkit comes with support and extended service contracts are available.
Royalties are due on applications developed with the toolkits.
Medical Compression Toolkit is available to developers creating products on Windows 3.1, Win32, Windows95, Windows NT and Solaris. This software toolkit is a set of highly optimized compression and decompression libraries developed specifically to facilitate medical imaging applications. These libraries provide a highly effective means of compressing X-rays, CT images, cardiogram studies, and other image types. Image compression cuts storage requirements and greatly reduces transmission time, features crucial for PACS and telemedicine applications respectively. The PICTools Medical Compression Toolkit is available directly from Pegasus Imaging.