images.dicom.parseDICOMDIR
Extract metadata from DICOMDIR file
Description
extracts the metadata from the DICOM directory file (DICOMDIR) named in
info
= images.dicom.parseDICOMDIR(filename
)filename
, returning the information in the structure
info
. If filename
is not a DICOMDIR
file, then the function returns an error.
A DICOMDIR is a special DICOM file that serves as a directory to a collection of DICOM files stored on removable media, such as CD- and DVD-ROMs. When devices write DICOM files to removable media, they typically write a DICOMDIR file on the disk to serve as a list of the disk contents.