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Name

mri_probedicom - queries a DICOM file

Synopsis

mri_probedicom --i dicomfile [<options>]

Arguments

Positional Arguments

none

Required Flagged Arguments

--i dicomfile

path to dicom file

path to the dicom file to probe. if this is the only option, a basic set of data will be printed out, including the Siemens ASCII header (if its a Siemens DICOM file)

Optional Flagged Arguments

--t group element

dicom group and element

group and element IDs in hexidecimal. eg, --t 10 10 will return the Patient Name. the software will compute the actual tag

--d directive

[val] filetype, tag, desc, mult, rep

specifies the aspect of the data item to probe. possible values are:

val - print out the value of the item (default)

filetype - type of file. return values are bigendian, littleendian, part10, or notadicom. even if the not a DICOM file, the exit status will still be zero. it is not necessary to supply a tag with this directive

tag - numeric value of the tag created by combining the group and element IDs

desc - description of the item

mult - multiplicity

rep - representation

--view

view the image

display the image in an X window. ignores the tag option

--o file

dump binary pixel data into file

dump the binary pixel data to filename

--ob stem

dump binary pixel data into bshort

dump the binary pixel dat to stem.bshort and create header stem.hdr

--dictionary

dump dicom dictionary and exit

print out the DICOM dictionary. this just calls the CTN program dcm_print_dictionary (which must be in your path). ignores all other options

--help

how to use this program

Outputs

stdout

result of data item probing

filename

dump of the binary pixel data

dictionary

printout of the DICOM dictionary

Description

mri_probedicom prints the value of the specified DICOM group and element item to stdout. If the file is not a DICOM file it will exit with a non-zero status. It is also possible to view the image, dump the pixel data to a file, and print out a basic set of information

Uses the DICOM CTN libraries. See DICOM.

Examples

Example 1

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Example 2

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Bugs

mri_probedicom has only been tested on Siemens DICOM files but it should work on any DICOM file. note: the CTN software does not support float and double DICOM data formats

See Also

othercommand1, othercommand2

Links

FreeSurfer, FsFast

Methods Description

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References

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Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to <analysis-bugs@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>

Author/s

DougGreve

mri_probedicom (last edited 2008-04-29 11:45:06 by localhost)