Image::ExifTool::DICOM(3pm)

Image::ExifTool::DICOM3pm

Read dicom and acr-nema medical images

Usage

This module is used by Image::ExifTool

Overview

This module contains routines required by Image::ExifTool to extract meta information from DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) DCM and ACR-NEMA (American College of Radiology - National Electrical Manufacturer's Association) ACR medical images.

Notes

Images compressed using the DICOM deflated transfer syntax will be decoded if Compress::Zlib is installed.

No translation of special characters sets is done.

References

<http://medical.nema.org/>
<http://www.sph.sc.edu/comd/rorden/dicom.html>
<http://www.dclunie.com/>
<http://www.gehealthcare.com/usen/interoperability/dicom/docs/2258357r3.pdf>

Releases

11 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 10 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9
  7. 10
  8. 11
  9. 12
  10. 13
  11. Arch

Author

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

From perl-image-exiftool 13.55-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.