Off-screen rendering of dicom images
gdcm2pnm [options] file-in bitmap-out
The gdcm2pnm command line program takes as input a DICOM file and produces a rendered bitmap file.
file-in DICOM input filename bitmap-out Bitmap output filename
-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
gdcm2pnm will take as input DICOM and render it into a bitmap file using the window/level attributes value.
$ gdcm2pnm input.dcm output.png
It is much different from the gdcmraw or gdcmimg command line tool as it will render a DICOM image. This means that the output will be rendered in 8bits ready for display.
Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Mathieu Malaterre