Exhalation-B V.1.37

Copyright 2004-2007 Udo Meng GmbH

Licence agreement:
Exhalation-B is a free available DICOM directory and file Browser.<br>
This program is made available, as it is.
We makes no warranty regarding the software, its performance,
its merchantability or usability for any particular case,
freedom from any computer diseases or its conformity to any specification.
The entire risk as to quality and performance of the program is with the user.
It is not allowed to make medical diagnostics with Exhalation-B.  
It is not allowed to sell this product or to put it in a commercial sold product.
If you are interested in further usage of Exhalation-B don't hesitate to contact us.


History:

V.1.0:
+ Browsing DICOMDIR directories, showing the structures in Tree view,
+ Preview of dicom images
+ Full screen view of dicom images

V.1.1 
+ Opening DICOM Files (Add. open filters)
+ Reopening/browsing without start
+ DICOM Tag view
+ Sizeable Dialog
+ Bugfixes

V.1.2
+ ICON preview for DICOM Patient, Study, Series
+ Fullscreen view now better supports  window width, center 
+ different zoomlevel in DICOM Fullscreen. (paning/zooming mouse support)
+ Toolbar for fullscreenwnd. (for changing center width)
+ Better Naviation in DICOMDIR

V.1.3
+ Full screen view now with person- and image data overlay
+ First command line parameter of exhalationB now supports DICOMDIR
  or a single DICOM image (Drag and Drop is possible)
+ Menu support
+ Tiff export
+ Stability bug fixes

V.1.35
+ VOI-LUTs
+ Optimation for Series Scrollings (flickerless)
+ Imagepreview Cinemode
+ OEM Logo and commandline options

V.1.37
+ OEM commanline option -title

Requirements:

- It is intended to use Windows 2000 or XP with the actual service Pack
- It is useful to have a system better than PIII 600Mhz and more than 500MB RAM


CD-Start / autostart:

- The program is designed to start direct from CD or other read-only drives.
it is not necessary to have an installation.

- If you like, it is possible directy load a DICOMDIR or file in Exhalation-B.
Therefore you can give this file/path direct as the first parameter to exhalation-B
e.g.	exhalationB.exe DICOMDIR
If exhalationB and DICOMDIR is in the actual dir.

-If you want to make a demo-CD you can use autorun.inf to directly start the program
when the CD is passed in the drive. Please keep in mind that your system must support
the autostart feature. (some system doesn't in some configuration it is switched off)
There must be a text file with the name autorun.inf in the root directory of the CD with
the following section.

[autorun] 
open=Viewers\ExhalationB.exe dicomdir

In this case ExhalationB is in the viewers dir of the CD and
there is a valid DICOMDIR in the root of the CD.


Special settings:
- A OEM logo bitmap "logo.bmp" can be placed in the exhalation.exe directory this logo will be shown
on the left bottom of the main dialog.
- The TAG tab in the dialog can be disabled with the commandline parameter -notagview
- The title of the main dialog can be modified with the commandline Parameter -title "My titelname"

commandline Syntax:
exhalation.exe [special settings] [loadfilepath]
e.g
exhalation.exe -notagview -title "My title" d:\dicom\dicomdir
or
exhalation.exe -notagview -title "My title" d:\dicom\dicomfile.dcm


Have fun

Udo Meng
