NAME

       dicomdump - vtk-dicom CLI

DESCRIPTION

   usage:
              dicomdump file1.dcm [file2.dcm ...]

   options:
       -k tag Provide a tag or key to be printed.

       -q <query.txt>
              Provide a file that lists which elements to print.

       --charset <cs>
              Charset to use if SpecificCharacterSet is missing.

       --help Print a brief help message.

       --version
              Print the software version.

       Dump the metadata from a set of DICOM files as text.

       By  default,  all  the  attributes  are dumped.  However, If only a few attributes are to be dumped, then
       their tags can be given with "-k" (the "-k" option can be repeated as many times as needed).  Tags can be
       given in hexadecimal GGGG,EEEE format, or in text format  as  specified  in  the  DICOM  dictionary  key.
       Alternatively,  the  tags  can  be  listed in a query file given with the "-q" option (one tag per line).
       Attributes nested within sequences can be specified by  giving  a  tag  path  e.g.  "-k  Tag1/Tag2/Tag3".
       Either a forward slash or a backslash can be used to separate the components of the path.

       For  text attribute values, any unprintable bytes will be replaced with the four characters "\nnn", where
       "nnn" is the three digit octal code for the byte.  Unprintable bytes are control characters or bytes that
       cannot be decoded with the SpecificCharacterSet of the DICOM file.  A backslash itself will  be  replaced
       by  its  byte  value  "\134"  if  the VR is ST, LT or UT (that is, any VR where backslash isn't used as a
       separator for multi-valued attributes).

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page was written by Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> for the Debian  GNU/Linux  system,
       but may be used by others.

dicomdump 0.8.17                                  February 2025                                     DICOMDUMP(1)