Working with DICOM metadata
Reading DICOM metadata properties
The GroupDocs.Metadata API supports extracting format-specific information from DICOM images.
The following are the steps to read the native DICOM metadata.
- Load a DICOM image
- Get the root metadata package
- Extract the native metadata package using DicomRootPackage.DicomPackage
- Read the DICOM metadata properties
AdvancedUsage.ManagingMetadataForSpecificFormats.
using (Metadata metadata = new Metadata(Constants.InputDicom))
{
var root = metadata.GetRootPackage<DicomRootPackage>();
if (root.DicomPackage != null)
{
Console.WriteLine(root.DicomPackage.BitsAllocated);
Console.WriteLine(root.DicomPackage.LengthValue);
Console.WriteLine(root.DicomPackage.DicomFound);
Console.WriteLine(root.DicomPackage.HeaderOffset);
Console.WriteLine(root.DicomPackage.NumberOfFrames);
// ...
}
}
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