read.DICOM: I/O function

In neuroconductor/fmri: Analysis of fMRI Experiments

Description

Read DICOM file.

Usage

read.DICOM(filename,includedata = TRUE)

Arguments

filename	name of the file
includedata	logical. should data be read too? defaults to TRUE.

Details

The function reads a DICOM file.

Value

Object with the following list entries:

header	header information as raw data
ttt	image data if requested. raw vector (numeric size 4) containing the four dimensional data cube (the first three dimensions are voxel dimensions, the fourth dimension denotes the time).
format	data source. string "DICOM"
delta	voxel size in mm
series	series identifier
image	image number within series
dim	dimension of the data if available

Note

Since the DICOM standard is rather complicated, there may be cases where this function cannot read a DICOM file. Known issue: it cannot read header with implicit VR. Return value may change in future version!

Author(s)

Karsten Tabelow [e-mail]

References

http://medical.nema.org

Polzehl, J. and Tabelow, K. (2007) fmri: A Package for Analyzing fmri Data, R News, 7:13-17 .

See Also

read.AFNI, read.ANALYZE

Examples

## Not run: dicom <- read.DICOM("dicomfile")

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