The goal of dcmtk is to wrap the ‘DICOM’ Toolkit (‘DCMTK’) http://dicom.offis.de/dcmtk.php.en
Set of functions porting the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (‘DICOM’) toolkit, a set of functions working with imaging data.
You can install dcmtk from github with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("muschellij2/dcmtk")