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matchHeader

Match String to DICOM Header Field

Description

A convenient wrapper function that utilizes internal functions to match character strings with the DICOM header information.

Usage

matchHeader(hdr, string)

Arguments

`hdr`	is the result from extracting information from a DICOM header field; e.g., using `extractHeader`.
`string`	is a character string to be matched with the DICOM header.

Value

A logical vector of length length(hdr).

Author(s)

Brandon Whitcher bwhitcher@gmail.com

References

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

Examples

x <- readDICOMFile(system.file("dcm/Abdo.dcm", package="oro.dicom"))
modality <- extractHeader(x$hdr, "Modality", numeric=FALSE)
matchHeader(modality, "mr") # case insensitive by default

oro.dicom

Rigorous - DICOM Input / Output

v0.5.3

BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE

Authors

Brandon Whitcher [aut, cre]

Initial release

2019-10-25