man gdcmscanner (1): Scan a directory containing DICOM files.

SYNOPSIS

gdcmscanner [options] directory

DESCRIPTION

The gdcmscanner is a command line tool to quickly extract value from a set of DICOM attribute in a DICOM File-Set.

PARAMETERS

  -d --dir       DICOM directory
  -t --tag %d,%d DICOM tag(s) to look for

OPTIONS

  -p --print      Print output.
  -r --recursive  Recusively descend directory.

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

TYPICAL USAGE

SIMPLE USAGE

In order to display all the value for Patient Name (0010,0010) in the directory name gdcmData, simply do:

$ gdcmscanner -t 10,10 -d gdcmData -p

COMPLEX USAGE

Because gdcmscanner does not support progress, you have to wait until all files are traversed to see any results. This is quite cumbersome, on UNIX this can be worked around with the following trick:

$ find gdcmData -type d -exec gdcmscanner -t 10,10 -d {} -p ';'

So all directory are locally traversed (no child directory are recursively traversed), which means results comes out much faster.

AUTHOR

Mathieu Malaterre

: Main developer