NAME Image::DCMTK - Interface to the DCMTK Dicom Toolkit VERSION Version 0.05 SYNOPSIS Provides a set of interface functions to the Dicom Toolkit (dcmtk) In most cases, the Dicom tags are treated as a hash to and from the various functions. There is an included Dicom Dictionary, but you are free to add your own tags as well EXPORT SUBROUTINES/METHODS openDicomFile Read a Dicom File and generate a Dicom object returnTagAsXML Return an XML formatted string version of a given DICOM tag You may use either a Group and Element type tag or a DICOM Dictionary Common Name (PatientID for example) This function really just calls open/closeXMLSequence open/closeXMLItem or makeXMLElement as needed makeXMLElement Return an XML formatted string version of a given "normal" DICOM tag (not a Item or a Sequence structure) openXMLItem Return an XML formatted string of the DICOM "Open Item" tag closeXMLItem Return an XML formatted string of the DICOM "Close Item" tag openXMLSequence Return an XML formatted string of an DICOM "Open Sequence" tag closeXMLSequence Return an XML formatted string of an DICOM "Close Sequence" tag parseDCMXMLDumpForTagLists parseDCMXMLDumpForSequences parseDCMXMLDump parseDCMDumpForSequences parseDCMDumpForTagLists parseDCMDump modifyAnImage AUTHOR Robert Haxton, "" BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-dcmtk-dicomtags at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at . I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. SUPPORT You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Image::DCMTK You can also look for information at: * RT: CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here) * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation * CPAN Ratings * Search CPAN * Code Repository ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright 2008-2012 Robert Haxton. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.