SimplePrintPatientName.cs

/*=========================================================================
 
  Program: GDCM (Grassroots DICOM). A DICOM library
 
  Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Mathieu Malaterre
  All rights reserved.
  See Copyright.txt or http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/Copyright.html for details.
 
     This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
     the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
     PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notice for more information.
 
=========================================================================*/
/*
 * Usage:
 * $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/Perso/gdcm/debug-gcc/bin
 * $ mono bin/SimplePrintPatientName.exe gdcmData/012345.002.050.dcm
 */
/*
 This example was provided by Jonathan Morra /jonmorra gmail com/
 on the gdcm mailing list (Fri, 28 May 2010)
*/
using System;
using gdcm;
 
namespace GDCMTest
{
  class SimplePrintPatientName
    {
    static int Main(string[] args)
      {
      if (args.Length != 1)
        {
        Console.WriteLine("This program prints the patient name of a dicom file with gdcm");
        Console.WriteLine("Usage: [input.dcm]");
        return 1;
        }
 
      gdcm.Reader reader = new gdcm.Reader();
      reader.SetFileName(args[0]);
      bool ret = reader.Read();
      //TagSetType tst = new TagSetType();
      //tst.Add( new Tag(0x7fe0,0x10) );
      //bool ret = reader.ReadUpToTag( new Tag(0x88,0x200), tst );
      if( !ret )
        {
        return 1;
        }
 
      gdcm.File file = reader.GetFile();
 
      gdcm.StringFilter filter = new gdcm.StringFilter();
      filter.SetFile(file);
      string value = filter.ToString(new gdcm.Tag(0x0010, 0x0010));
 
      Console.WriteLine("Patient Name: " + value);
      return 0;
      }
    }
}