However, to really create the DICOMDIR file, the Create button must be activated. When Gather statistics is activated, all files in the directory tree are analyzed, and the information in the STATISTICS section updated. You may also want to look at my other tutorial titled DICOM Basics using.

The Change Folder opens a file browser to select the root directory of the tree containing the DICOM files to be registered. This is part of my series of articles on the DICOM standard.If you are totally new to DICOM, please have a quick look at my earlier article titled Introduction to the DICOM Standard for a quick introduction to the standard. This function is called by the Create Dicomdir entry in the Menu and opens the following dialog. The PVIEW tool has a handy function to create a DICOMDIR file which registers all DICOM files contained in a directory tree (see also the section DICOM Part 10 Data Loading). This file can be maintained by PMOD's DICOM server which updates the information after receiving and storing new images (see also the PMOD DICOM Functionality). a Basic Directory) referencing those files: odil dicomdir /some/location/images. In PMOD, the DICOMDIR similarly describes the DICOM files residing under a root directory, eg. From a set of DICOM files, the command odil dicomdir creates a DICOMDIR (i.e. For instance, DICOM-compliant data CDs contain a DICOMDIR at the root level which contains a description and access information for all the studies on the CD. The DICOMDIR file format has been defined to organize the access to off-line DICOM part 10 files.

Create dicomdir file