Extract Single Field from DICOM Headers

A particular DICOM field is extracted for a collection of DICOM headers.

extractHeader(hdrs, string, numeric = TRUE, names = FALSE,
  inSequence = TRUE)

Arguments

hdrs	List object of DICOM headers.
string	DICOM field name.
numeric	Logical; values are converted to numbers when TRUE.
names	Logical; file names are kept with elements of the vector.
inSequence	Logical; whether or not to look into SequenceItem elements.

Value

Vector of values from the requested DICOM field.

Details

The DICOM field is extracted from each DICOM header and placed into a vector.

References

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

See also

readDICOM

Author

Brandon Whitcher bwhitcher@gmail.com

Examples

x <- readDICOMFile(system.file("dcm/Abdo.dcm", package="oro.dicom"))
seriesDescription <- extractHeader(x$hdr, "SeriesDescription", numeric=FALSE)
IOP <- extractHeader(x$hdr, "ImageOrientationPatient", numeric=FALSE)