1GDCMGENDIR(1)                 DICOM Manipulation.                GDCMGENDIR(1)
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NAME

6       gdcmgendir - Tool to generate a DICOMDIR file from a File-Set.
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SYNOPSIS

9           gdcmgendir [options] file-in file-out
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DESCRIPTION

PARAMETERS
13           file-in   DICOM input filename
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15           file-out  DICOM output filename
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OPTIONS
18   Parameters
19   specific options
20             -i --input              DICOM filename or directory
21             -o --output             DICOM filename or directory
22             -r --recursive          recursive.
23                --descriptor         descriptor.
24                --root-uid           Root UID.
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26   general options
27             -h   --help
28                    print this help text and exit
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30             -v   --version
31                    print version information and exit
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33             -V   --verbose
34                    verbose mode (warning+error).
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36             -W   --warning
37                    warning mode, print warning information
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39             -E   --error
40                    error mode, print error information
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42             -D   --debug
43                    debug mode, print debug information
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45   environment variable
46             GDCM_ROOT_UID Root UID
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TYPICAL USAGE
NOTE
50       One may have to run some preliminary steps in order to get gdcmgendir
51       to generate the DICOMDIR file. Namely two steps:
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53       •   Batch renaming of the DICOM filename into something compatible with
54           ISO 9660 filename convention
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56       •   Convert all DICOM file into the Explicit VR Little Endian
57           Uncompressed (1.2.840.10008.1.2.1)
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59       Step 1. can be solved in a numerous way. Eg. on UNIX environment this
60       could either be solved using the mkisofs command line tool. Filenames
61       should not contains any extension since the VR CS does not allow for
62       the '.' character. Only upper case, digit 0-9, the space ' ' and the
63       underscore '_' character are valid in VR CS, with a maximum of 8 bytes.
64       Another simple tool that can be handy is 'rename' in conjunction with
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67       Step 2. can simply be achieved using the gdcmconv command line tool:
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69             $ for i in `ls IMG*`; do gdcmconv --raw --force $i /tmp/out/$i; done
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SEE ALSO
72       gdcmconv(1), gdcmanon(1), rename(1), mkisofs(1)
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AUTHOR
75       Mathieu Malaterre
76           Main developer
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79       Copyright © 2006, 2011 Mathieu Malaterre
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83GDCM 3.0.12                       08/02/2022                     GDCMGENDIR(1)



        

    


            
        

        

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