Read DICOM File — read_dicom

Reads in the DICOM header from a file

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

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

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.
...	passed to `dcmdump`

Value

Character vector of header information

Examples

file = system.file("extdata", "example.dcm", package = "dcmtk")
read_dicom_header(file)
#> /tmp/RtmpbIKxLr/bin/dcmdump -q --print-all --load-short --print-filename  /home/runner/work/_temp/Library/dcmtk/extdata/example.dcm 
#> Warning: running command '/tmp/RtmpbIKxLr/bin/dcmdump -q --print-all --load-short --print-filename  /home/runner/work/_temp/Library/dcmtk/extdata/example.dcm ' had status 126
#> Warning: dcmdump gave back non-zero status
#> Error in if (nrow(df) == 0) {    return(NULL)} argument is of length zero