images.dicom.decodeUID
Get information about DICOM unique identifier
Description
returns information about the DICOM unique identifier contained in
details
= images.dicom.decodeUID(uid
)uid
. details
contains the name and
type of the UID. If uid
corresponds to a transfer syntax, then
details
also contains the endianness and the DICOM value
representation (VR) necessary for reading the image pixels, and information about
compression.
The images.dicom.decodeUID
function can interpret IDs defined
in the PS 3.6-1999 specification, with some additions from PS 3.6-2009.