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)
hdrs |
List object of DICOM headers. |
string |
DICOM field name. |
numeric |
Logical; values are converted to numbers when |
names |
Logical; file names are kept with elements of the vector. |
inSequence |
Logical; whether or not to look into SequenceItem elements. |
The DICOM field is extracted from each DICOM header and placed into a vector.
Vector of values from the requested DICOM field.
Brandon Whitcher bwhitcher@gmail.com
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
http://medical.nema.org
x <- readDICOMFile(system.file("dcm/Abdo.dcm", package="oro.dicom"))
seriesDescription <- extractHeader(x$hdr, "SeriesDescription", numeric=FALSE)
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