README.md

Node.js DICOM Parser

There is a data dictionary that knows about the tag definitions and UIDs of the 2011 standard. The DICOM parser parses every string as Latin-1 i.e it is not aware of SpecificCharacterSet. The parser emits events that can be used to produce any kind of output. Currently only JSON is produced.

Examples:

Read a dicom file in ExplictVRLittleEndian - no preamble or metainfo, just the dataset.

var fs = require('fs'),
    dicom = require('node-dicom');

var stream = fs.createReadStream(process.argv[2]),
    reader = new dicom.dicomreader.DicomReader(stream),
    handler = new dicom.handler.JsonHandler(reader);
reader.readDataset(function () {
    console.log("Dataset: %s", handler.json());
});

Read a DICOM file with preamble & metainfo giving the TS for the main dataset:

var fs = require('fs'),
    dicom = require('node-dicom');


var stream = fs.createReadStream(process.argv[2]),
    reader = new dicom.dicomreader.DicomReader(stream),
    handler = new dicom.handler.JsonHandler(reader);
reader.readFile(function () {
    console.log("Dataset: %s", handler.json());
});