/*========================================================================= Program: GDCM (Grassroots DICOM). A DICOM library Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Mathieu Malaterre All rights reserved. See Copyright.txt or http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/Copyright.html for details. This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the above copyright notice for more information. =========================================================================*/ /* * This small example will show how one can read and print * a DICOM Attribute using different technique (by tag or by name) */ #include "gdcmReader.h" #include "gdcmGlobal.h" #include "gdcmDicts.h" #include "gdcmDict.h" #include "gdcmAttribute.h" #include "gdcmStringFilter.h" #include int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { if( argc < 2 ) { std::cerr << argv[0] << " input.dcm" << std::endl; return 1; } const char *filename = argv[1]; // Instanciate the reader: gdcm::Reader reader; reader.SetFileName( filename ); if( !reader.Read() ) { std::cerr << "Could not read: " << filename << std::endl; return 1; } // The output of gdcm::Reader is a gdcm::File gdcm::File &file = reader.GetFile(); // the dataset is the the set of element we are interested in: gdcm::DataSet &ds = file.GetDataSet(); const gdcm::Global& g = gdcm::Global::GetInstance(); const gdcm::Dicts &dicts = g.GetDicts(); const gdcm::Dict &pubdict = dicts.GetPublicDict(); using namespace gdcm; // In this example we will show why using name to lookup attribute can be // dangerous. Tag tPatientName(0x0,0x0); //const DictEntry &de1 = pubdict.GetDictEntryByName("Patient Name", tPatientName); std::cout << "Found: " << tPatientName << std::endl; // Indeed the attribute could not be found. Since DICOM 2003, Patient Name // has become Patient's Name. Tag tPatientsName; //const DictEntry &de2 = pubdict.GetDictEntryByName("Patient's Name", tPatientsName); std::cout << "Found: " << tPatientsName << std::endl; // Let's try to read an arbitrary DICOM Attribute: Tag tDoseGridScaling; //const DictEntry &de3 = pubdict.GetDictEntryByName("Dose Grid Scaling", tDoseGridScaling); std::cout << "Found: " << tDoseGridScaling << std::endl; if( ds.FindDataElement( tDoseGridScaling ) ) { gdcm::StringFilter sf; sf.SetFile(file); std::cout << "Attribute Value as String: " << sf.ToString( tDoseGridScaling ) << std::endl; // Let's check the name again: std::pair pss = sf.ToStringPair( tDoseGridScaling ); std::cout << "Attribute Name Checked: " << pss.first << std::endl; std::cout << "Attribute Value (string): " << pss.second << std::endl; //const DataElement &dgs = ds.GetDataElement( tDoseGridScaling ); // Let's assume for a moment we knew the tag number: Attribute<0x3004,0x000e> at; assert( at.GetTag() == tDoseGridScaling ); at.SetFromDataSet( ds ); // For the sake of long term maintenance, we will not write // that this particular attribute is stored as a double. What if // a user made a mistake. It is much safer to rely on GDCM internal // mechanism to deduce the VR::DS type (represented as a ieee double) Attribute<0x3004,0x000e>::ArrayType v = at.GetValue(); std::cout << "DoseGridScaling=" << v << std::endl; } return 0; }