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NAME

       dctable - ACR/NEMA DICOM PS3 ... DICOM PS3 - Make tables of attribute values

SYNOPSIS

       dctable  " inputfile1 [ inputfile2 ... ]" [ -ignorereaderrors ] [ -v|verbose ] [ -r|recurse ] [ -describe
                 ] [ -nofilename ] [ -noembeddedquotes|decimal ] [ -key|k  elementname|(0xgggg,0xeeee) ] ...   [
                 -input-nometa  ]  [  -input-ts   uid  ]  [  -input-default  ]  [ -input-byteorder|-input-endian
                 big|little ] [ -input-vr  implicit|explicit ]

DESCRIPTION

       dctable reads the named dicom input files and creates a tab delimited table of the values of the selected
       attributes, with each value enclosed in double quotes.

       Binary attributes are written in hexadecimal with a preceding "0x". Numeric string attributes are written
       in decimal.

       The first column always contains the filenames.

       A header is a added only if the -describe option is specified.

       If a specified attribute is not present in a file, then it the corresponding entry in the table  will  be
       empty (i.e. two consecutive quotes" but this is not reported as an error.

OPTIONS

       The  table  of  attribute  values go to standard output, and the verbose output and errors go to standard
       error.

       The basic input switches are described in dcintro(1). Options specific to this program are:

       -describe
              Add a first line of output that is a header describing the attributes in each column.

       -nofilename
              Do not include the filename in the table.

       -noembeddedquotes|decimal
              Remove embedded quotes (") from within displayed values to allow them  to  be  parsed  consistenty
              later;  also  has  the  side  effect  of  displaying  numeric binary values as decimal rather than
              hexadecimal, hence the alternative option name.

       -k|key  elementname|(0xgggg,0xeeee)
              Add a key to the list of attributes to be extracted. The attribute may  also  be  specified  as  a
              hexadecimal pair of the form (0xgggg,0xeeee), which also allows private attributes to be fetched.

       -r|recurse
              If  any  attribute is not found in the top level dataset, recurse through sequence attribute items
              until the first instance is found. This is a depth-first traversal,  i.e.,  all  children  of  the
              first item of a sequence are searched before the sibling items.

       -ignorereaderrors
              Attempt to extract key values even if errors encountered whilst parsing DICOM file.

ENVIRONMENT

EXAMPLES

       % dctable -k Rows -k Columns
               -describe test.dc3
       "Filename"     "Rows"    "Columns"
       "test.dc3"     "0x0100"  "0x0100"

FILES

SEE ALSO

       dcintro(1),dckey(1)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (c) 1993-2015, David A. Clunie DBA PixelMed Publishing. All rights reserved.

BUGS

       Attempts to extract sequences or OB,OW attributes may fail nastily.

       The  order  in which the attributes are extracted and written is not the same order as they are specified
       on the command line, and should not be depended on.