NAME
gdcmgendir - .TH "gdcmgendir" 1 "Sun Aug 8 2010" "Version 2.0.15"
"GDCM"
NAME
gdcmgendir - .SH "SYNOPSIS"
gdcmgendir [options] file-in file-out
DESCRIPTION
PARAMETERS
file-in DICOM input filename
file-out DICOM output filename
OPTIONS
Parameters
OPTIONS
-i --input DICOM filename or directory
-o --output DICOM filename or directory
-r --recursive recursive.
--descriptor descriptor.
--root-uid Root UID.
--resources-path Resources path.
general options
-h --help
print this help text and exit
-v --version
print version information and exit
-V --verbose
verbose mode (warning+error).
-W --warning
warning mode, print warning information
-E --error
error mode, print error information
-D --debug
debug mode, print debug information
environment variable
GDCM_ROOT_UID Root UID
GDCM_RESOURCES_PATH path pointing to resources files (Part3.xml, ...)
Typical usage
NOTE
One may have to run some preliminary steps in order to get gdcmgendir
to generate the DICOMDIR file. Namely two steps:
o Batch renaming of the DICOM filename into something compatible with
ISO 9660 filename convention
o Convert all DICOM file into the Explicit VR Little Endian
Uncompressed (1.2.840.10008.1.2.1)
Step 1. can be solved in a numerous way. Eg. on UNIX environment this
could either be solved using the mkisofs command line tool. filename
should not contains any extension since the VR CS does not allow for
the '.' character. Only upper case, digit 0-9, the space ' ' and the
underscore '_' character are valid in VR CS, with a maximum of 8 bytes.
Another simple tool that can be handy is 'rename' in conjunction with
'basename'.
Step 2. can simply be achieved using the gdcmconv command line tool:
$ for i in `ls IMG*`; do gdcmconv --raw --force $i /tmp/out/$i; done
SEE ALSO
gdcmconv(1), gdcmanon(1), rename(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Mathieu Malaterre