--i dicomfile

path to dicom file

path to the dicom file to probe. if this is the only option, a basic set of data will be printed out, including the Siemens ASCII header (if its a Siemens DICOM file)

--t group element

dicom group and element

group and element IDs in hexidecimal. eg, --t 10 10 will return the Patient Name. the software will compute the actual tag

--d directive

[val] filetype, tag, desc, mult, rep

specifies the aspect of the data item to probe. possible values are:

val - print out the value of the item (default)

filetype - type of file. return values are bigendian, littleendian, part10, or notadicom. even if the not a DICOM file, the exit status will still be zero. it is not necessary to supply a tag with this directive

tag - numeric value of the tag created by combining the group and element IDs

desc - description of the item

mult - multiplicity

rep - representation

--view

view the image

display the image in an X window. ignores the tag option

--o file

dump binary pixel data into file

dump the binary pixel data to filename

--ob stem

dump binary pixel data into bshort

dump the binary pixel dat to stem.bshort and create header stem.hdr

--dictionary

dump dicom dictionary and exit

print out the DICOM dictionary. this just calls the CTN program dcm_print_dictionary (which must be in your path). ignores all other options

--help

how to use this program

stdout

result of data item probing

filename

dump of the binary pixel data

dictionary

printout of the DICOM dictionary