Rdcm.upgrade: Updating Rdcm files.

In espadon: Easy Study of Patient DICOM Data in Oncology

Updating Rdcm files.

Description

The Rdcm.upgrade function updates Rdcm files that were created with a previous version.

Usage

Rdcm.upgrade(Rdcm.files)

Arguments

Rdcm.files

String vector, representing the list of the full names of the Rdcm files, or its directories.

Value

Saves the updated Rdcm files. If the Rdcm files were generated from the dicom files, the data is updated from the DICOM fields.

Examples

# First, save toy patient objects to a temporary file pat.dir for testing.
pat.dir <- file.path(tempdir(), "PM_Rdcm") 
dir.create(pat.dir, recursive = TRUE) 
patient <- toy.load.patient(modality = c("ct", "mr"), roi.name = "", 
                            dxyz = c(4, 4, 4))
save.to.Rdcm(patient$ct[[1]], dirname = pat.dir)
save.to.Rdcm(patient$mr[[1]], dirname = pat.dir)
save.T.MAT(patient$T.MAT, dirname = pat.dir)
# Rdcm files in pat.dir
list.files(pat.dir)

# test of Rdcm.upgrade

Rdcm.upgrade(pat.dir)
# or
Rdcm.upgrade(list.files(pat.dir, full.names = TRUE))

# Cleaning  temporary directories
unlink(pat.dir, recursive = TRUE)

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