Installation

1. Place the nanodicom and dicom folders anywhere (but they have to be in the same parent folder)
2. Add the following statement anywhere in your code
   require_once PATH_TO_NANODICOM.'nanodicom.php';
3. Load files the following way:
   $dicom = Nanodicom::factory(LOCATION_OF_FILE);

Miscelaneous

• Coding conventions from Kohana:
  http://kohanaframework.org/guide/about.conventions
• DICOM standard:
  ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/2009/
• DICOM Dictionary up to 2009 version (self-extracted)
  ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/2009/09_06pu3.pdf
• Special thanks to the hundreds of people that uploaded their DICOM files to the php-DICOM test page. I have used that repository to test this new toolkit extensively.
• DICOM sample files have been obtained from python package "pydicom" (thanks Darcy)
  http://code.google.com/p/pydicom/
  http://code.google.com/p/pydicom/source/browse/source/dicom/testfiles/README.txt