Image::...::DICOM(3)

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🩺 Image::...::DICOM(3) — bestie edition 💖

okay so this page is from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, and it's all about Image::ExifTool::DICOM, which lives in the Image::...::DICOM(3) slot. sit down, grab a snack 🍓, we're doing medical imaging lore.

✨ NAME ✨

Image::ExifTool::DICOM — read DICOM and ACR-NEMA medical images. that's it. that's the whole job. iconic honestly 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

so like… this module doesn't get called by you directly. it's used by Image::ExifTool. the way that ExifTool is the main character and this is the supporting cast 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

bestie, this module has all the routines that Image::ExifTool needs to pull meta information out of:

  • DICOM — that's Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine, the DCM files
  • ACR-NEMA — that's American College of Radiology - National Electrical Manufacturer's Association, the ACR medical images

just meta extraction. lowkey a whole medical-imaging pipeline's worth of vibes in one little Perl module 🫶

🎀 NOTES 🎀

  • images that got compressed using the DICOM deflated transfer syntax will be decoded — but only if Compress::Zlib is installed. no Zlib, no decode. it's giving conditional slay ✨
  • no translation of special characters sets is done. fr fr, zero. don't come for this module about it 💀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

periodt. 💜

🌈 REFERENCES 🌈

(the links are right there, go read them, iykyk 📚)

💫 SEE ALSO 💫

and that's the whole page bestie!! no cap, you now know everything this manpage knows 🧚

this little masterpiece is from perl v5.42.1, dated 2026-03-31, and it's the Image::...::DICOM(3) page. mwah 💋
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