Read All DICOM Files in a Directory

All DICOM files are imported and a text file summarizing their content recorded.

readDICOM(path, recursive = TRUE, exclude = NULL, verbose = FALSE,
  counter, ...)

Arguments

path	Path name to the DICOM directory.
recursive	Search recursively down from the given path name.
exclude	Exclude file names containing this character string.
verbose	Flag to provide text-based progress bar.
counter	Ignored.
...	Arguments to be passed to readDICOMFile.

Value

A list structure with two major components:

img

All images associated with the DICOM directory(ies).

hdr

All header files associated with the DICOM directory(ies).

Details

A for loop is used to process each DICOM file contained in the directory(ies). If only a single file is specified in the path, readDICOM will read that file only.

References

Whitcher, B., V. J. Schmid and A. Thornton (2011). Working with the DICOM and NIfTI Data Standards in R, Journal of Statistical Software, 44 (6), 1--28. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v44/i06

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

See also

readDICOMFile

Author

Brandon Whitcher bwhitcher@gmail.com

Examples

## pixelData = TRUE
## The DICOM image data are read from readDICOM()

if (FALSE) {
dcmSphere <- readDICOM(system.file("sphere3", package="oro.dicom"), verbose=TRUE)
}