pytrip.dicomhelper module

Auxilliary functions for handling Dicom data.

pytrip.dicomhelper.compare_dicom_key(dcm)

Specifying the sorting key for CT images.

pytrip.dicomhelper.read_dicom_dir(dicom_dir)

Reads a directory with dicom files. Identifies each dicom file with .dcm suffix and returns a dict containing a dicom object. Dicom object may be “CT”, “RTSTRUCT”, “RTDOSE” or “RTPLAN”. Corresponding keys for lookup are “images”, “rtss”, “rtdose” or “rtplan” repsectively. CT objects are lists of images. They will be sorted by the position in patient given by the ImagePositionPatient[2] tag.

Returns:A dict containing dicom objects and corresponding keys ‘images’,’rtss’,’rtdose’ or ‘rtplan’.