# \#dcmtk

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## [Should ITK offer a supported way to read DICOM tags and sequences? (four downstreams have vendored itk::DCMTKFileReader)](https://discourse.itk.org/t/should-itk-offer-a-supported-way-to-read-dicom-tags-and-sequences-four-downstreams-have-vendored-itk-dcmtkfilereader/7791)

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**Author:** [@hjmjohnson](https://discourse.itk.org/u/hjmjohnson)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 18, 2026, 7:47pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/should-itk-offer-a-supported-way-to-read-dicom-tags-and-sequences-four-downstreams-have-vendored-itk-dcmtkfilereader/7791 "2026-08-18T19:47:38Z")

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While fixing a Windows link failure in BRAINSTools, I found the same vendored copy of itk::DCMTKFileReader in four independent projects, all of them in namespace itk with ITK’s original class names. Three are actively m…