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

MathieuMalaterre
           Main developer

       Copyright © 2006, 2011 Mathieu Malaterre

GDCM 3.0.24                                        03/08/2025                                      GDCMGENDIR(1)

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

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

       •   Batch renaming of the DICOM filename into something compatible with ISO 9660 filename convention

       •   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. Filenames 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

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

   generaloptions
             -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

   environmentvariable
             GDCM_ROOT_UID Root UID

           file-in   DICOM input filename

           file-out  DICOM output filename

gdcmconv(1), gdcmanon(1), rename(1), mkisofs(1)

           gdcmgendir [options] file-in file-out