Dicom Toolkit - dicominfo

: info = dicominfo (filename)

: info = dicominfo (filename, "dictionary", dictionary-name)

: dicominfo (___, options)

Get all metadata from a DICOM file, excluding any actual image. info is a nested struct containing the data.

If the dictionary argument is used, the given dictionary-name is used for this operation, otherwise, the dictionary set by dicomdict is used.

Inputs

filename - name of file to read.

’dictionary’ - string constant of ’dictionary’.

dictionary-name - filename of dictionary to use.

options - a string in format of ’optionname=value’, or property/value pair ’optionname’, value: truncate=n where n is the number of characters to limit the dump output display to nfor each value.

Outputs

info - struct of fields read frome the dicom file.

Examples

Read the metadata of a dicomfile:

 > info = dicominfo(file_in_loadpath('imdata/simple-test.dcm')
 info = 
   scalar structure containing the fields:
     Filename = a.dcm
     FileModDate = 04-Feb-2017 02:08:31
     FileMetaInformationVersion =
       0  1
     MediaStorageSOPClassUID = 1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.7
     MediaStorageSOPInstanceUID = 1.2.826.0.1.3680043.2.1143.4379544382488839209812957878553810312
     TransferSyntaxUID = 1.2.840.10008.1.2
     ImplementationClassUID = 1.2.826.0.1.3680043.2.1143.107.104.103.115.2.6.3
     ImplementationVersionName = GDCM 2.6.3
     SourceApplicationEntityTitle = GDCM
     ImageType = DERIVED \SECONDARY  
     SOPClassUID = 1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.7
     SOPInstanceUID = 1.2.826.0.1.3680043.2.1143.4379544382488839209812957878553810312
     StudyDate = 20170203
     StudyTime = 210831.360586 
     Modality = OT
     ConversionType = WSD 
     NominalScannedPixelSpacing =
        1
        1
     StudyInstanceUID = 1.2.826.0.1.3680043.2.1143.1282184104726305239898701219563360204
     SeriesInstanceUID = 1.2.826.0.1.3680043.2.1143.9385265081744858155080799316976198629
     SamplesPerPixel = 1
     PhotometricInterpretation = MONOCHROME1 
     Rows = 10
     Columns = 5
     BitsAllocated = 8
     BitsStored = 8
     HighBit = 7
     PixelRepresentation = 0
     RescaleIntercept = 0
     RescaleSlope =  1
     RescaleType = US
     PixelData = not assigned
 

See also: dicomread, dicomdict.