gdcmgendir(1)							       GDCM							     gdcmgendir(1)

NAME

       gdcmgendir - Tool to generate a DICOMDIR file from a File-Set.

SYNOPSIS

       gdcmgendir [options] file-in file-out

DESCRIPTION

PARAMETERS

       file-in	 DICOM input filename

       file-out  DICOM output filename

options
   Parameters
   options
	 -i --input		 DICOM filename or directory
	 -o --output		 DICOM filename or directory
	 -r --recursive 	 recursive.
	    --descriptor	 descriptor.
	    --root-uid		 Root UID.

   general options
	 -h   --help
		print this help text and exit

	 -v   --version
		print version information and exit

	 -V   --verbose
		verbose mode (warning+error).

	 -W   --warning
		warning mode, print warning information

	 -E   --error
		error mode, print error information

	 -D   --debug
		debug mode, print debug information

   environment variable
	 GDCM_ROOT_UID Root UID

Typical usage
NOTE

       One may have to run some preliminary steps in order to get gdcmgendir to generate the DICOMDIR file. Namely two steps:

       o Batch renaming of the DICOM filename into something compatible with ISO 9660 filename convention
       o Convert all DICOM file into the Explicit VR Little Endian Uncompressed (1.2.840.10008.1.2.1)
       Step 1. can be solved in a numerous way. Eg. on UNIX environment this could either be solved using the mkisofs command line tool. filename
       should not contains any extension since the VR CS does not allow for the '.' character. Only upper case, digit 0-9, the space ' ' and the
       underscore '_' character are valid in VR CS, with a maximum of 8 bytes. Another simple tool that can be handy is 'rename' in conjunction
       with 'basename'.
       Step 2. can simply be achieved using the gdcmconv command line tool:
	 $ for i in `ls IMG*`; do gdcmconv --raw --force $i /tmp/out/$i; done
SEE ALSO

       gdcmconv(1), gdcmanon(1), rename(1)
COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Mathieu Malaterre

Version 2.2.0							  Tue Feb 5 2013						     gdcmgendir(1)