read_dicom_header: Read DICOM File

In muschellij2/dcmtk: Wrapper for 'DICOM' Toolkit ('DCMTK')

Read DICOM File

Description

Reads in the DICOM header from a file

Usage

read_dicom_header(
  file = "*.dcm",
  replace_names = FALSE,
  add_opts = "",
  recursive = FALSE,
  path = ".",
  fail_on_nonzero_exit = FALSE,
  ...
)

read_single_dicom_header(
  file = "",
  replace_names = FALSE,
  add_opts = "",
  fail_on_nonzero_exit = FALSE,
  ...
)

dcmhd(...)

Arguments

file	DICOM input file or directory. If recursivee = TRUE, then this will be the pattern to match within path
replace_names	logical indicating if unknown tag names should be inferred from dicom_tags
add_opts	additional options to pass to dcmdump. The flags already added are -q --print-all --load-short --print-filename
recursive	logical indicating if the --recurse flag be passed to dcmdump
path	if recursive = TRUE, then this will the path scanned.
fail_on_nonzero_exit	should a non-zero exit status on 'dcmdump' cause an error ('TRUE') or a warning ('FALSE')?
...	passed to dcmdump

Value

Character vector of header information

Examples

file = system.file("extdata", "example.dcm", package = "dcmtk")
read_dicom_header(file)

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