man gdcm2pnm (1): off-screen rendering of DICOM images

SYNOPSIS

gdcm2pnm [options] file-in bitmap-out

DESCRIPTION

The gdcm2pnm command line program takes as input a DICOM file and produces a rendered bitmap file.

PARAMETERS

file-in   DICOM input filename
bitmap-out  Bitmap output filename

OPTIONS

specific options

general options

  -h   --help
         print this help text and exit
  -v   --version
         print version information and exit
  -V   --verbose
         verbose mode (warning+error).
  -W   --warning
         warning mode, print warning information
  -E   --error
         error mode, print error information
  -D   --debug
         debug mode, print debug information

SIMPLE USAGE

gdcm2pnm will take as input DICOM and render it into a bitmap file using the window/level attributes value.

$ gdcm2pnm input.dcm output.png

It is much different from the gdcmraw or gdcmimg command line tool as it will render a DICOM image. This means that the output will be rendered in 8bits ready for display.

AUTHOR

Mathieu Malaterre

: Main developer