man gdcmviewer (1): Simple DICOM viewer.

SYNOPSIS

gdcmviewer [options] file-in

DESCRIPTION

The gdcmviewer is a simple tool that show how to use vtkGDCMImageReader. The class that use gdcm to make a layer to VTK. gdcmviewer is basically only just a wrapper around VTK/GDCM.

This tool is meant for testing integration of GDCM in VTK. You should see it as a demo tool. It does compile with VTK ranging from 4.2 to 5.10, but only with VTK 5.2 (or above) can play with the widgets (as described below).

PARAMETERS

file-in   DICOM input filename

OPTIONS

specific options

     --force-rescale    force rescale (advanced users)
     --force-spacing    force spacing (advanced users)
  -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

For now gdcmviewer should be started from a command line prompt. The next argument should be the name of the DICOM file you wish to read. For instance:

$ gdcmviewer -V 012345.002.050.dcm

gdcmviewer will try to read your file, and then print the vtk information associated with this file. Basically what kind of image you are looking at.

: • ScalarType is the DICOM Real World Value type

: • Dimensions is the dimension of the image

: • Spacing is the spacing of the image

: • NumberOfScalarComponents should be 1 for grayscale & PALETTE COLOR and 3 for RGB, YBR data.

WIKI LINK

The wiki page, with color pictures can be found at: m[blue]http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Gdcmviewerm[]

AUTHOR

Mathieu Malaterre

: Main developer