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NAME

       dsr2xml - Convert DICOM SR file and data set to XML

SYNOPSIS

       dsr2xml [options] dsrfile-in [xmlfile-out]

DESCRIPTION

       The  dsr2xml  utility  converts the contents of a DICOM Structured Reporting (SR) document
       (file format or raw data  set)  to  XML  (Extensible  Markup  Language).  The  XML  Schema
       dsr2xml.xsd  does  not  yet  follow  any standard format. However, the dsr2xml application
       might be enhanced in this aspect in the future (e.g.  by  supporting  HL7/CDA  -  Clinical
       Document Architecture).

       If  dsr2xml  reads  a  raw data set (DICOM data without a file format meta-header) it will
       attempt to guess the transfer syntax by examining the first few bytes of the file.  It  is
       not  always  possible to correctly guess the transfer syntax and it is better to convert a
       data set to a file format whenever possible  (using  the  dcmconv  utility).  It  is  also
       possible  to  use  the  -f  and  -t[ieb] options to force dsr2xml to read a dataset with a
       particular transfer syntax.

PARAMETERS

       dsrfile-in   DICOM SR input filename to be converted

       xmlfile-out  XML output filename (default: stdout)

OPTIONS

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

              --version
                print version information and exit

              --arguments
                print expanded command line arguments

         -q   --quiet
                quiet mode, print no warnings and errors

         -v   --verbose
                verbose mode, print processing details

         -d   --debug
                debug mode, print debug information

         -ll  --log-level  [l]evel: string constant
                (fatal, error, warn, info, debug, trace)
                use level l for the logger

         -lc  --log-config  [f]ilename: string
                use config file f for the logger

   input options
       input file format:

         +f   --read-file
                read file format or data set (default)

         +fo  --read-file-only
                read file format only

         -f   --read-dataset
                read data set without file meta information

       input transfer syntax:

         -t=  --read-xfer-auto
                use TS recognition (default)

         -td  --read-xfer-detect
                ignore TS specified in the file meta header

         -te  --read-xfer-little
                read with explicit VR little endian TS

         -tb  --read-xfer-big
                read with explicit VR big endian TS

         -ti  --read-xfer-implicit
                read with implicit VR little endian TS

   processing options
       error handling:

         -Er  --unknown-relationship
                accept unknown/missing relationship type

         -Ev  --invalid-item-value
                accept invalid content item value
                (e.g. violation of VR or VM definition)

         -Ec  --ignore-constraints
                ignore relationship content constraints

         -Ee  --ignore-item-errors
                do not abort on content item errors, just warn
                (e.g. missing value type specific attributes)

         -Ei  --skip-invalid-items
                skip invalid content items (including sub-tree)

         -Dv  --disable-vr-checker
                disable check for VR-conformant string values

       specific character set:

         +Cr  --charset-require
                require declaration of extended charset (default)

         +Ca  --charset-assume  [c]harset: string
                assume charset c if no extended charset declared

         +Cc  --charset-check-all
                check all data elements with string values
                (default: only PN, LO, LT, SH, ST, UC and UT)

                # this option is only used for the mapping to an appropriate
                # XML character encoding, but not for the conversion to UTF-8

         +U8  --convert-to-utf8
                convert all element values that are affected
                by Specific Character Set (0008,0005) to UTF-8

                # requires support from an underlying character encoding library
                # (see output of --version on which one is available)

   output options
       encoding:

         +Ea  --attr-all
                encode everything as XML attribute
                (shortcut for +Ec, +Er, +Ev and +Et)

         +Ec  --attr-code
                encode code value, coding scheme designator
                and coding scheme version as XML attribute

         +Er  --attr-relationship
                encode relationship type as XML attribute

         +Ev  --attr-value-type
                encode value type as XML attribute

         +Et  --attr-template-id
                encode template id as XML attribute

         +Ee  --template-envelope
                template element encloses content items
                (requires +Wt, implies +Et)

       XML structure:

         +Xs  --add-schema-reference
                add reference to XML Schema 'dsr2xml.xsd'
                (not with +Ea, +Ec, +Er, +Ev, +Et, +Ee, +We)

         +Xn  --use-xml-namespace
                add XML namespace declaration to root element

       writing:

         +We  --write-empty-tags
                write all tags even if their value is empty

         +Wi  --write-item-id
                always write item identifier

         +Wt  --write-template-id
                write template identification information

NOTES

   DICOM Conformance
       The dsr2xml utility supports the following SOP Classes:

       SpectaclePrescriptionReportStorage           1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.78.6
       MacularGridThicknessAndVolumeReportStorage   1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.79.1
       BasicTextSRStorage                           1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.88.11
       EnhancedSRStorage                            1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.88.22
       ComprehensiveSRStorage                       1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.88.33
       Comprehensive3DSRStorage                     1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.88.34
       ProcedureLogStorage                          1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.88.40
       MammographyCADSRStorage                      1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.88.50
       KeyObjectSelectionDocumentStorage            1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.88.59
       ChestCADSRStorage                            1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.88.65
       XRayRadiationDoseSRStorage                   1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.88.67
       RadiopharmaceuticalRadiationDoseSRStorage    1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.88.68
       ColonCADSRStorage                            1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.88.69
       ImplantationPlanSRDocumentStorage            1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.88.70
       AcquisitionContextSRStorage                  1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.88.71
       SimplifiedAdultEchoSRStorage                 1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.88.72
       PatientRadiationDoseSRStorage                1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.88.73
       PlannedImagingAgentAdministrationSRStorage   1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.88.74
       PerformedImagingAgentAdministrationSRStorage 1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.88.75

       Please note that currently only mandatory and some optional attributes are supported.

   Character Encoding
       The XML  encoding  is  determined  automatically  from  the  DICOM  attribute  (0008,0005)
       'Specific Character Set' using the following mapping:

       ASCII         (ISO_IR 6)                       =>  'UTF-8'
       UTF-8         'ISO_IR 192'                     =>  'UTF-8'
       ISO Latin 1   'ISO_IR 100'                     =>  'ISO-8859-1'
       ISO Latin 2   'ISO_IR 101'                     =>  'ISO-8859-2'
       ISO Latin 3   'ISO_IR 109'                     =>  'ISO-8859-3'
       ISO Latin 4   'ISO_IR 110'                     =>  'ISO-8859-4'
       ISO Latin 5   'ISO_IR 148'                     =>  'ISO-8859-9'
       Cyrillic      'ISO_IR 144'                     =>  'ISO-8859-5'
       Arabic        'ISO_IR 127'                     =>  'ISO-8859-6'
       Greek         'ISO_IR 126'                     =>  'ISO-8859-7'
       Hebrew        'ISO_IR 138'                     =>  'ISO-8859-8'
       Thai          'ISO_IR 166'                     =>  'TIS-620'
       Japanese      'ISO 2022 IR 13\ISO 2022 IR 87'  =>  'ISO-2022-JP'
       Korean        'ISO 2022 IR 6\ISO 2022 IR 149'  =>  'ISO-2022-KR'
       Chinese       'ISO 2022 IR 6\ISO 2022 IR 58'   =>  'ISO-2022-CN'
       Chinese       'GB18030'                        =>  'GB18030'
       Chinese       'GBK'                            =>  'GBK'

       If  this  DICOM attribute is missing in the input file, although needed, option --charset-
       assume can be used to specify an appropriate character set  manually  (using  one  of  the
       DICOM defined terms). For reasons of backward compatibility with previous versions of this
       tool, the following terms are also supported and mapped automatically  to  the  associated
       DICOM defined terms: latin-1, latin-2, latin-3, latin-4, latin-5, cyrillic, arabic, greek,
       hebrew.

       Option --convert-to-utf8 can be used to convert the  DICOM  file  or  data  set  to  UTF-8
       encoding prior to the conversion to XML format.

       If  no  mapping  is defined and option --convert-to-utf8 is not used, non-ASCII characters
       and those below #32 are stored as '&#nnn;' where 'nnn' refers  to  the  numeric  character
       code. This might lead to invalid character entity references (such as '' for ESC) and
       will cause most XML parsers to reject the document.

   Error Handling
       Please be careful with  the  processing  options  --unknown-relationship,  --invalid-item-
       value,  --ignore-constraints,  --ignore-item-errors  and  --skip-invalid-items  since they
       disable certain validation checks on the DICOM SR input file and, therefore, might  result
       in  non-standard  conformant output. However, there might be reasons for using one or more
       of these options, e.g. in order to read and process an incorrectly encoded SR document.

   Limitations
       The XML Schema dsr2xml.xsd does not support all variations of the dsr2xml  output  format.
       However, the default output format (plus option --use-xml-namespace) should work.

LOGGING

       The level of logging output of the various command line tools and underlying libraries can
       be specified by the user. By default, only errors and warnings are written to the standard
       error  stream.  Using option --verbose also informational messages like processing details
       are reported. Option --debug can be used to get more details  on  the  internal  activity,
       e.g.  for  debugging  purposes.  Other  logging levels can be selected using option --log-
       level. In --quiet mode only fatal errors are reported. In such very severe  error  events,
       the  application will usually terminate. For more details on the different logging levels,
       see documentation of module 'oflog'.

       In case the logging output should be written to file (optionally with  logfile  rotation),
       to  syslog  (Unix)  or  the  event  log  (Windows)  option  --log-config can be used. This
       configuration file also allows for directing only certain messages to a particular  output
       stream  and  for  filtering certain messages based on the module or application where they
       are generated. An example configuration file is provided in <etcdir>/logger.cfg.

COMMAND LINE

       All command line tools use the following notation for parameters: square brackets  enclose
       optional  values  (0-1),  three  trailing  dots  indicate that multiple values are allowed
       (1-n), a combination of both means 0 to n values.

       Command line options are distinguished from parameters by  a  leading  '+'  or  '-'  sign,
       respectively. Usually, order and position of command line options are arbitrary (i.e. they
       can appear anywhere). However, if options are mutually exclusive the rightmost  appearance
       is used. This behavior conforms to the standard evaluation rules of common Unix shells.

       In  addition,  one or more command files can be specified using an '@' sign as a prefix to
       the filename (e.g. @command.txt). Such a command argument is replaced by  the  content  of
       the corresponding text file (multiple whitespaces are treated as a single separator unless
       they appear between two quotation marks) prior to any further evaluation. Please note that
       a  command  file  cannot  contain another command file. This simple but effective approach
       allows one to summarize common combinations of options/parameters and avoids  longish  and
       confusing command lines (an example is provided in file <datadir>/dumppat.txt).

ENVIRONMENT

       The  dsr2xml  utility  will  attempt  to  load  DICOM  data  dictionaries specified in the
       DCMDICTPATH environment variable. By default, i.e. if the DCMDICTPATH environment variable
       is  not  set,  the  file <datadir>/dicom.dic will be loaded unless the dictionary is built
       into the application (default for Windows).

       The default behavior should be preferred and the  DCMDICTPATH  environment  variable  only
       used when alternative data dictionaries are required. The DCMDICTPATH environment variable
       has the same format as the Unix shell PATH  variable  in  that  a  colon  (':')  separates
       entries. On Windows systems, a semicolon (';') is used as a separator. The data dictionary
       code will attempt to load each file specified in the DCMDICTPATH environment variable.  It
       is an error if no data dictionary can be loaded.

FILES

       <datadir>/dsr2xml.xsd - XML Schema file

SEE ALSO

       xml2dsr(1), dcmconv(1)

COPYRIGHT

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