matchHeader: Match String to DICOM Header Field

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

View source: R/header.R

Description

A convenient wrapper function that utilizes internal functions to match character strings with the DICOM header information.

Usage

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matchHeader(hdr, string)

Arguments

hdr

is the result from extracting information from a DICOM header field; e.g., using extractHeader.

string

is a character string to be matched with the DICOM header.

Value

A logical vector of length length(hdr).

Author(s)

Brandon Whitcher bjw34032@users.sourceforge.net

References

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
http://medical.nema.org

See Also

extractHeader

Examples

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x <- readDICOMFile(system.file("dcm/Abdo.dcm", package="oro.dicom"))
modality <- extractHeader(x$hdr, "Modality", numeric=FALSE)
matchHeader(modality, "mr") # case insensitive by default

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