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<author><personname><firstname>Mathieu</firstname><surname>Malaterre</surname></personname><contrib>Main developer</contrib></author>
<copyright><year>2006</year><year>2011</year><holder>Mathieu Malaterre</holder></copyright>
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  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>gdcmviewer</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
    <refmiscinfo class="source">GDCM</refmiscinfo>
    <refmiscinfo class="version">&version;</refmiscinfo>
    <refmiscinfo class="manual">DICOM Manipulation.</refmiscinfo>
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  <refnamediv><refname>gdcmviewer</refname>
    <refpurpose>Simple DICOM viewer.</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsection xml:id="gdcmviewer_1synopsis">
<title>SYNOPSIS</title>

<para><literallayout>gdcmviewer [options] file-in
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</refsection>
<refsection xml:id="gdcmviewer_1description">
<title>DESCRIPTION</title>

<para>The <emphasis role="bold">gdcmviewer</emphasis> is a simple tool that show how to use <emphasis>vtkGDCMImageReader</emphasis>. The class that use gdcm to make a layer to VTK. <emphasis role="bold">gdcmviewer</emphasis> is basically only just a wrapper around VTK/GDCM.</para>

<para>This tool is meant for testing integration of GDCM in VTK. You should see it as a demo tool. It does compile with VTK ranging from 4.2 to 5.10, but only with VTK 5.2 (or above) can play with the widgets (as described below).</para>
</refsection>
<refsection xml:id="gdcmviewer_1parameters">
<title>PARAMETERS</title>

<para><literallayout>file-in   DICOM input filename
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</refsection>
<refsection xml:id="gdcmviewer_1options">
<title>OPTIONS</title>
<refsection xml:id="gdcmviewer_1specific_options">
<title>specific options</title>

<para><literallayout>     --force-rescale    force rescale (advanced users)
     --force-spacing    force spacing (advanced users)
  -r --recursive        Recursively descend directory
</literallayout></para>
</refsection>
<refsection xml:id="gdcmviewer_1general_options">
<title>general options</title>

<para><literallayout>  -h   --help
         print this help text and exit

  -v   --version
         print version information and exit

  -V   --verbose
         verbose mode (warning+error).

  -W   --warning
         warning mode, print warning information

  -E   --error
         error mode, print error information

  -D   --debug
         debug mode, print debug information
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</refsection>
</refsection>
<refsection xml:id="gdcmviewer_1usage">
<title>Typical usage</title>
</refsection>
<refsection xml:id="gdcmviewer_1simple_usage">
<title>Simple usage</title>

<para>For now gdcmviewer should be started from a command line prompt. The next argument should be the name of the DICOM file you wish to read. For instance:</para>

<para><literallayout>$ gdcmviewer -V 012345.002.050.dcm
</literallayout></para>

<para>gdcmviewer will try to read your file, and then print the vtk information associated with this file. Basically what kind of image you are looking at.</para>

<para><itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>ScalarType is the DICOM Real World Value type </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Dimensions is the dimension of the image </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Spacing is the spacing of the image </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NumberOfScalarComponents should be 1 for grayscale &amp; PALETTE COLOR and 3 for RGB, YBR data.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</refsection>
<refsection xml:id="gdcmviewer_1wiki_link">
<title>Wiki Link</title>

<para>The wiki page, with color pictures can be found at: <link xlink:href="http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Gdcmviewer">http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Gdcmviewer</link></para>
</refsection>
<refsection xml:id="gdcmviewer_1see_also">
<title>SEE ALSO</title>

<para><emphasis role="bold">gdcmdump</emphasis>(1), <emphasis role="bold">gdcm2vtk</emphasis>(1)</para>
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