Image Processing Toolbox

dicominfo

Read metadata from a DICOM message

Syntax

• info = dicominfo(filename)
  info = dicominfo(filename,'dictionary', D)
  

Description

info = dicominfo(filename) reads the metadata from the compliant Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) file specified in the string, filename.

info = dicominfo(filename,'dictionary', D) uses the data dictionary file given in the string D to read the DICOM message. The file in D must be on the MATLAB search path. The default dictionary file is dicom-dict.txt.

Examples

• info = dicominfo('CT-MONO2-16-ankle.dcm')
  
  info = 
                         Filename: [1x47 char]
                      FileModDate: '24-Dec-2000 19:54:47'
                         FileSize: 525436
                           Format: 'DICOM'
                    FormatVersion: 3
                            Width: 512
                           Height: 512
                         BitDepth: 16
                        ColorType: 'grayscale'
                            .
                            .
                            .
  

See Also

dicomread, dicomwrite

deconvwnr

dicomread