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NAME

       dump2dcm - Convert ASCII dump to DICOM file

SYNOPSIS

       dump2dcm [options] dumpfile-in dcmfile-out

DESCRIPTION

       The  dump2dcm  utility  converts an ASCII dump file to a DICOM file. The dump file has the
       same format as the output of dcmdump. Thus it is possible to capture the output of dcmdump
       into a file, modify some attributes and create a new DICOM file.

PARAMETERS

       dumpfile-in  dump input filename

       dcmfile-out  DICOM output filename

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-meta-info
                read meta information if present (default)

         -f   --ignore-meta-info
                ignore file meta information

       file contents byte ordering:

         +rl  --read-file-little
                read OW data with little endian (default)

         +rb  --read-file-big
                read OW data from file with big endian

       other input options:

         +l   --line  [m]ax-length: integer
                maximum line length m (default: 4096)

   processing options
       unique identifiers:

         +Ug  --generate-new-uids
                generate new Study/Series/SOP Instance UID

         -Uo  --dont-overwrite-uids
                do not overwrite existing UIDs (default)

         +Uo  --overwrite-uids
                overwrite existing UIDs

   output options
       output file format:

         +F   --write-file
                write file format (default)

         -F   --write-dataset
                write data set without file meta information

         +Fu  --update-meta-info
                update particular file meta information

       output transfer syntax:

         +t=  --write-xfer-same
                write with same TS as input (default)

         +te  --write-xfer-little
                write with explicit VR little endian

         +tb  --write-xfer-big
                write with explicit VR big endian TS

         +ti  --write-xfer-implicit
                write with implicit VR little endian TS

         +td  --write-xfer-deflated
                write with deflated explicit VR little endian TS

       error handling:

         -E   --stop-on-error
                do not write if dump is damaged (default)

         +E   --ignore-errors
                attempt to write even if dump is damaged

       post-1993 value representations:

         +u   --enable-new-vr
                enable support for new VRs (UN/UT) (default)

         -u   --disable-new-vr
                disable support for new VRs, convert to OB

       group length encoding:

         +g=  --group-length-recalc
                recalculate group lengths if present (default)

         +g   --group-length-create
                always write with group length elements

         -g   --group-length-remove
                always write without group length elements

       length encoding in sequences and items:

         +e   --length-explicit
                write with explicit lengths (default)

         -e   --length-undefined
                write with undefined lengths

       data set trailing padding (not with --write-dataset):

         -p=  --padding-retain
                do not change padding (default if not --write-dataset)

         -p   --padding-off
                no padding (implicit if --write-dataset)

         +p   --padding-create  [f]ile-pad [i]tem-pad: integer
                align file on multiple of f bytes
                and items on multiple of i bytes

       deflate compression level (only with --write-xfer-deflated):

         +cl  --compression-level  [l]evel: integer (default: 6)
                0=uncompressed, 1=fastest, 9=best compression

NOTES

   Dump File Description
       The  input  file  can  be an output of dcmdump (default indented format only). One element
       (tag, VR, value) must be written into one  line  separated  by  arbitrary  spaces  or  tab
       characters. A '#' begins a comment that ends at the line end. Empty lines are allowed.

       The individual parts of a line have the following syntax:

       Tag:   (gggg,eeee)
              with gggg and eeee are 4 character hexadecimal values
              representing group and element tag.  Spaces and tabs can be
              anywhere in a tag specification.
       VR:    Value Representation must be written as 2 characters as in
              Part 6 of the DICOM standard.  No spaces or tabs are allowed
              between the two characters.  If the VR can be determined from
              the tag, this part of a line is optional.
       Value: There are several rules for writing values:
              1. US, SS, SL, UL, FD, FL are written as decimal strings that
                 can be read by scanf().
              2. AT is written as '(gggg,eeee)' with additional spaces
                 stripped off automatically and gggg and eeee being decimal
                 strings that can be read by scanf().
              3. OB and OW values are written as byte or word hexadecimal
                 values separated by '\' character.  Alternatively, OB or OW
                 values can be read from a separate file by writing the
                 filename prefixed by a '=' character (e.g. '=largepix.dat').
                 The contents of the file will be read as is.  By default, OW
                 data is expected to be little endian ordered and will be
                 swapped if necessary.  No checks will be made to ensure that
                 the amount of data is reasonable in terms of other attributes
                 such as Rows or Columns.
                 In case of compressed pixel data, the line should start with
                 '(7fe0,0010) OB (PixelSequence' in order to distinguish from
                 uncompressed pixel data.
              4. UI is written as '=Name' in data dictionary or as unique
                 identifier string (see 6.), e.g. '[1.2.840.....]'.
              5. Strings without () <> [] spaces, tabs and # can be written
                 directly.
              6. Other strings must be surrounded by '[' and ']'.  No bracket
                 structure is passed.  The value ends at the last ']' in the
                 line.  Anything after the ']' is interpreted as comment.
              7. '(' and '<' are interpreted special and may not be used when
                 writing an input file by hand as beginning characters of a
                 string.  Multiple Value are separated by '\'.  The lines
                 need not be sorted into ascending tag order.  References in
                 DICOM Directories are not supported.  Semantic errors are
                 not detected.

   Example
        (0008,0020) DA [19921012]            #  8, 1 StudyDate
        (0008,0016) UI =MRImageStorage       # 26, 1 SOPClassUID
        (0002,0012) UI [1.2.276.0.7230010.100.1.1]
        (0020,0032) DS [0.0\0.0]             #  8, 2 ImagePositionPatient
        (0028,0009) AT (3004,000c)           #  4, 1 FrameIncrementPointer
        (0028,0010) US 256                   #  4, 1 Rows
        (0002,0001) OB 01\00

   Limitations
       Please  note  that dump2dcm currently does not fully support DICOMDIR files. Specifically,
       the value of the various offset data elements is not updated automatically by this tool.

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 dump2dcm 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.

SEE ALSO

       dcmdump(1)

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 1996-2014 by OFFIS e.V., Escherweg 2, 26121 Oldenburg, Germany.