IDLffDICOM

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An IDLffDICOM object contains the data for one or more images embedded in a DICOM Part 10 file. The API to the IDLffDICOM object provides accessor methods to the basic data elements of a DICOM file, namely the group/element tag, value representation, length, and data values. Additional methods deal with the file header preamble, data dictionary description for individual elements, and embedded sequences of elements. Most methods take a DICOM group/element tag as a parameter. An alternative parameter to the DICOM tag in some methods is the reference. A reference value is a LONG integer that is unique to each element in the DICOM object. This value can be used to directly access a specific element and to differentiate between elements in the DICOM file that have the same group/element tag. Valid reference values are always positive.

See IDLffDICOM Object DICOM Conformance Summary for information regarding IDL DICOM file reading support.

Note
The IDLffDicomEx object greatly expands on the capabilities of the IDLffDICOM object and requires an additional license key to access the functionality. The IDLffDicomEx object includes methods for reading and writing pixel data to a DICOM file, and specifying the data compression. You can also add, modify, or remove public and private DICOM attribute tags, public and private sequences, and sets of repeating tags within sequences. See Medical Imaging in IDL for details.

Superclasses

None

Creation

See IDLffDICOM::Init.

Properties

Objects of this class have the following properties. See IDLffDICOM Properties for details on individual properties.

Methods

This class has the following methods:

Version History