Image::ExifTool::DICOM
Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)
Updated: 2021-01-27
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NAME
Image::ExifTool::DICOM - Read DICOM and ACR-NEMA medical images
SYNOPSIS
This module is used by Image::ExifTool
DESCRIPTION
This module contains routines required by Image::ExifTool to extract meta
information from
DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine)
DCM
and ACR-NEMA (American College of Radiology - National Electrical
Manufacturer's Association)
ACR medical images.
NOTES
Images compressed using the
DICOM deflated transfer syntax will be decoded
if Compress::Zlib is installed.
No translation of special characters sets is done.
AUTHOR
Copyright 2003-2021, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com)
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
REFERENCES
- <http://medical.nema.org/>
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- <http://www.sph.sc.edu/comd/rorden/dicom.html>
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- <http://www.dclunie.com/>
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- <http://www.gehealthcare.com/usen/interoperability/dicom/docs/2258357r3.pdf>
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SEE ALSO
``
DICOM Tags'' in Image::ExifTool::TagNames,
Image::ExifTool(3pm)