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DICOM debug utility

26 Sep 2007 (Updated 26 Sep 2007)

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A tool to dump the contents of DICOM files for debugging

File Information
Description	DICOM is a rather complicated format. The DICOMINFO and DICOMREAD functions provide easy access to the data in DICOM-formatted files, but it can be difficult to know why and where the DICOM parser fails for improperly formatted files. This file must be placed in the toolbox/images/medformats directory. The DICOMDUMP utility presents a flat representation of the file with minimal data translation. For each attribute in the DICOM file it prints these values: * Byte offset in the file * Nesting depth (for sequences) * Attribute group and element number * Value representation (VR) code * Data length in bytes * Attribute name from the data dictionary * A description of the data Meta-information about the file and reading environment also appears: * filename * machine endian * presence of required 0002 metadata * information object UID and name * transfer syntax UID and name
Required Products	Image Processing Toolbox
MATLAB release	MATLAB 7.3 (R2006b)
Other requirements	This file must be placed in the toolbox/images/medformats directory.

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29 Jan 2009	Niall	I have had an issue using this file. The path listed "toolbox/images/medformats" is not on my version 7 of matlab Image Processing Toolbox. Has there been specific updates of matlab that now contain the medformats folder. I would be very interested in using this utility as dicom info is failing to parse the metadata of the dicom files that I have

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Tag	Applied By	Date/Time
medical	Jeff Mather	22 Oct 2008 09:28:34
dicom	Jeff Mather	22 Oct 2008 09:28:34
metadata	Jeff Mather	22 Oct 2008 09:28:34
tool	Jeff Mather	22 Oct 2008 09:28:34
dump	Jeff Mather	22 Oct 2008 09:28:34
contents	Jeff Mather	22 Oct 2008 09:28:34
functions	Jeff Mather	22 Oct 2008 09:28:34

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