PLOTPHYSIO(1)

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💖 PLOTPHYSIO(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to plotphysio — it's a page from the Generated Python Manual and it's literally about plotting your physio traces, no cap 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

plotphysio — that's the whole name, that's the whole vibe 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

plotphysio [-h] [-s SHOWSAMPLES] filename

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea: this thing reads and plots active (i.e. non-zero) signals from SIEMENS advanced physiological log/DICOM files. Iconic behavior honestly 😌

It expects you to hand it one of two situations:

  • a combination of individual logfiles — *_ECG.log, *_RESP.log, *_PULS.log, *_EXT.log, *_Info.log — that were generated by >=R013 sequences, or
  • a single encoded "_PHYSIO" DICOM file generated by >=R015 sequences ✨

🎀 filename

Either the fullpath of the DICOM file or the base name of the PHYSIO logfiles (that's the fullpath without suffix and file extension, like 'foo/bar/Physio_DATE_TIME_UUID'). Basically give it the whole path or give it the stem, and it'll figure out the rest 🧚

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -s SHOWSAMPLES, --showsamples SHOWSAMPLES — the nr of plotted samples of the physiological traces. Default is 1000, and bestie listen: nothing is plotted if 0 🫥 (yes, zero really means zero, not "a lil bit")

🌈 COMMENTS 🌈

here are the examples, copied exactly because we do not freestyle with commands around here:

examples:
  plotphysio myproject/sub-001/MR000000.dcm
  plotphysio -s 2000
myproject/sub-001/Physio_20200428_142451_007e910e-02d9-4d7a-8fdb-8e3568be8322

and the credit line, as written:

@author: Marcel Zwiers

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Marcel Zwiers <m.zwiers@donders.ru.nl> — the main character who wrote this, we stan 💜

okay that's the whole page, slay 💖 this was bidscoin 4.6.2, dated 2025-11-06 — go plot something pretty bestie, ily, bye 🎀🦋✨

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