matchHeader: Match String to DICOM Header Field
In oro.dicom: Rigorous - DICOM Input / Output

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

1	matchHeader(hdr, string)

`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.

A logical vector of length length(hdr).

Brandon Whitcher bjw34032@users.sourceforge.net

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

extractHeader

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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