NAME

Image::DCMTK - Interface to the DCMTK Dicom Toolkit

VERSION

Version 0.05

SYNOPSIS

Provides a set of interface functions to the Dicom Toolkit (dcmtk)

In most cases, the Dicom tags are treated as a hash to and from the various functions.

There is an included Dicom Dictionary, but you are free to add your own tags as well

EXPORT

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

openDicomFile

Read a Dicom File and generate a Dicom object

returnTagAsXML

Return an XML formatted string version of a given DICOM tag

You may use either a Group and Element type tag or a DICOM Dictionary Common Name (PatientID for example)

This function really just calls open/closeXMLSequence open/closeXMLItem or makeXMLElement as needed

makeXMLElement

Return an XML formatted string version of a given "normal" DICOM tag (not a Item or a Sequence structure)

openXMLItem

Return an XML formatted string of the DICOM "Open Item" tag

closeXMLItem

Return an XML formatted string of the DICOM "Close Item" tag

openXMLSequence

Return an XML formatted string of an DICOM "Open Sequence" tag

closeXMLSequence

Return an XML formatted string of an DICOM "Close Sequence" tag

parseDCMXMLDumpForTagLists

parseDCMXMLDumpForSequences

parseDCMXMLDump

parseDCMDumpForSequences

parseDCMDumpForTagLists

parseDCMDump

modifyAnImage

AUTHOR

Robert Haxton, <robert.haxton at gmail.com>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-dcmtk-dicomtags at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Image-DCMTK. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Image::DCMTK

You can also look for information at:

• RT: CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here)

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Image-DCMTK

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  http://annocpan.org/dist/Image-DCMTK

• CPAN Ratings

  http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Image-DCMTK

• Search CPAN

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/Image-DCMTK/

• Code Repository

  https://code.google.com/p/Image-DCMTK/

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2008-2012 Robert Haxton.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.

cpanm Image::DCMTK

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Image::DCMTK