DICOMHEAD(1)

📦 version 2.33.1, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

💖 DICOMHEAD — bestie's guide to peeking inside a DICOM file 💖

okay so picture this: it's a User Commands manual page, section 1, and the whole thing is about a lil tool called dicomhead. that's the vibe. let's go. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

dicomhead — prints a dump of the header data in DICOM images 🩻✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dicomhead <DICOM file>

that's it. one argument. one file. no cap. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea, bestie: dicomhead prints a dump of all the info chillin' in the DICOM header of the image file you hand it. like, you point it at a file, it spills the header contents. iconic behavior. 👑

and here's the part that makes it stand out from the crowd: unlike those other similar tools out there, dicomhead ALSO pulls some extra goodies out of the Siemens shadow set — specifically:

  • the number of groups
  • the number of channels
  • and the sagital, axial and transverse position 🌈

so yeah, it's giving "similar tool but with bonus Siemens lore." obsessed. 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

dicomhead is written by Valerio Luccio (valerio.luccio@nyu.edu). shoutout to the author fr fr. 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

ngl there's literally nothing else on this page. no flags, no options, no environment variables, no exit statuses. just vibes and one argument. lowkey refreshing. 😭

and that's a wrap, bestie!! this lil slice of documentation comes to you from Valerio Luccio, dated August 2006, and it's page DICOMHEAD(1) — main character energy since '06. periodt. 💅✨🎀

📦 where this page comes from