gdcmgendir - Man Page
Tool to generate a DICOMDIR file from a File-Set.
Synopsis
gdcmgendir [options] file-in file-out
Description
Parameters
file-in DICOM input filename file-out DICOM output filename
Options
Parameters
specific options
-i --input DICOM filename or directory
-o --output DICOM filename or directory
-r --recursive recursive.
--descriptor descriptor.
--root-uid Root UID.general options
-h --help
print this help text and exit
-v --version
print version information and exit
-V --verbose
verbose mode (warning+error).
-W --warning
warning mode, print warning information
-E --error
error mode, print error information
-D --debug
debug mode, print debug informationenvironment variable
GDCM_ROOT_UID Root UID
Typical Usage
Note
One may have to run some preliminary steps in order to get gdcmgendir to generate the DICOMDIR file. Namely two steps:
- Batch renaming of the DICOM filename into something compatible with ISO 9660 filename convention
- Convert all DICOM file into the Explicit VR Little Endian Uncompressed (1.2.840.10008.1.2.1)
Step 1. can be solved in a numerous way. Eg. on UNIX environment this could either be solved using the mkisofs command line tool. Filenames should not contains any extension since the VR CS does not allow for the '.' character. Only upper case, digit 0-9, the space ' ' and the underscore '_' character are valid in VR CS, with a maximum of 8 bytes. Another simple tool that can be handy is 'rename' in conjunction with 'basename'.
Step 2. can simply be achieved using the gdcmconv command line tool:
$ for i in `ls IMG*`; do gdcmconv --raw --force $i /tmp/out/$i; done
See Also
gdcmconv(1), gdcmanon(1), rename(1), mkisofs(1)
Author
Mathieu Malaterre
Main developer
Copyright
Copyright © 2006, 2011 Mathieu Malaterre