readDICOM {oro.dicom}

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.

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.

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).

Author(s)

Brandon Whitcher [e-mail]

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

## pixelData = TRUE
## The DICOM image data are read from readDICOM()

## Not run: 
dcmSphere <- readDICOM(system.file("sphere3", package="oro.dicom"), verbose=TRUE)

## End(Not run)