read.DICOM {fmri}R Documentation

I/O function

Description

Read DICOM file.

Usage

read.DICOM(filename,includedata = TRUE)

Arguments

filename name of the file
includedata logical. should data be read too? defaults to TRUE.

Details

The function reads a DICOM file.

Value

Object with the following list entries:

header header information as raw data
ttt image data if requested. raw vector (numeric size 4) containing the four dimensional data cube (the first three dimensions are voxel dimensions, the fourth dimension denotes the time).
format data source. string "DICOM"
delta voxel size in mm
series series identifier
image image number within series
dim dimension of the data if available

Note

Since the DICOM standard is rather complicated, there may be cases where this function cannot read a DICOM file. Known issue: it cannot read header with implicit VR. Return value may change in future version!

Author(s)

Karsten Tabelow tabelow@wias-berlin.de

References

http://medical.nema.org

See Also

read.AFNI, read.ANALYZE

Examples

## Not run: dicom <- read.DICOM("dicomfile")

[Package fmri version 1.2-6 Index]