oro.dicom (version 0.5.0)

readDICOM: Read All DICOM Files in a Directory

Description

All DICOM files are imported and a text file summarizing their content recorded.

Usage

readDICOM(path, recursive = TRUE, exclude = NULL, verbose = FALSE,
  counter, ...)

Arguments

path

Path name to the DICOM directory.

recursive

Search recursively down from the given path name.

exclude

Exclude file names containing this character string.

verbose

Flag to provide text-based progress bar.

counter

Ignored.

...

Arguments to be passed to readDICOMFile.

Value

A list structure with two major components:

img

All images associated with the DICOM directory(ies).

hdr

All header files associated with the DICOM directory(ies).

Details

A for loop is used to process each DICOM file contained in the directory(ies). If only a single file is specified in the path, readDICOM will read that file only.

References

Whitcher, B., V. J. Schmid and A. Thornton (2011). Working with the DICOM and NIfTI Data Standards in R, Journal of Statistical Software, 44 (6), 1--28. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v44/i06

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) http://medical.nema.org

See Also

readDICOMFile

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## pixelData = TRUE
## The DICOM image data are read from readDICOM()

# }
# NOT RUN {
dcmSphere <- readDICOM(system.file("sphere3", package="oro.dicom"), verbose=TRUE)
# }