debian man page for gdcmscanner

gdcmscanner(1)							       GDCM							    gdcmscanner(1)

NAME
       gdcmscanner - Scan a directory containing DICOM files.

SYNOPSIS
       gdcmscanner [options] directory

DESCRIPTION
       The gdcmscanner is a command line tool to quickly extract value from a set of DICOM attribute in a DICOM File-Set.

   PARAMETERS
	 -d --dir	DICOM directory
	 -t --tag %d,%d DICOM tag(s) to look for

   options
	 -p --print	 Print output.
	 -r --recursive  Recusively descend directory.

   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

Typical usage
Simple usage
       In order to display all the value for Patient Name (0010,0010) in the directory name gdcmData, simply do:

       $ gdcmscanner -t 10,10 -d gdcmData -p

Complex usage
       Because gdcmscanner does not support progress, you have to wait until all files are traversed to see any results. This is quite cumbersome,
       on UNIX this can be worked around with the following trick:

       $ find gdcmData -type d -exec gdcmscanner -t 10,10 -d {} -p ;

       So all directory are locally traversed (no child directory are recursively traversed), which means results comes out much faster.

SEE ALSO
       gdcmdump(1), gdcmraw(1)

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Mathieu Malaterre

Version 2.2.0							  Tue Feb 5 2013						    gdcmscanner(1)