gdcmviewer

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Version: 333549 (ubuntu - 24/10/10)

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NAME

gdcmviewer - .TH "gdcmviewer" 1 "Thu Sep 16 2010" "Version 2.0.15" "GDCM"

NAME

gdcmviewer - .SH "SYNOPSIS"
 
 gdcmviewer [options] file-in
 

DESCRIPTION

The gdcmviewer is a simple tool that show how to use vtkGDCMImageReader. The class that use gdcm to make a layer to VTK. gdcmviewer is basically only just a wrapper around GDCM.

This tool is meant for testing integration of GDCM in VTK. You should see it as a demo tool. It does compile with VTK ranging from 4.2 to 5.4, but only with VTK 5.2 (or above) can only play with the widgets (as described below).

PARAMETERS

 
 file-in   DICOM input filename
 

OPTIONS

general options

 
   -h   --help
          print this help text and exit
 
   -v   --version
          print version information and exit
 
   -V   --verbose
          verbose mode (warning+error).
 
   -W   --warning
          warning mode, print warning information
 
   -E   --error
          error mode, print error information
 
   -D   --debug
          debug mode, print debug information
 

Typical usage

Simple usage

For now gdcmviewer should be started from a command line prompt. The next argument should be the name of the DICOM file you wish to read. For instance:

 
  $ gdcmviewer -V 012345.002.050.dcm
 

gdcmviewer will try to read your file, and the print the vtk information associated with this file. Basically what kind of image you are looking at.

ScalarType is the DICOM Real World Value type
Dimensions is the dimension of the image
Spacing is the spacing of the image
NumberOfScalarComponents should be 1 for grayscale & PALETTE COLOR and 3 for RGB, YBR data.

The wiki page, will color pictures can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gdcm/index.php?title=Gdcmviewer

SEE ALSO

gdcmdump(1), gdcmraw(1)

Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Mathieu Malaterre