The DICOMDIR file contains Dicom Directory information, which makes it easier to access the information contained in the other DICOM files in the file-set.

The DICOM files in the file-set are assigned File IDs, so that they can be referenced by the DICOMDIR File, which itself, is identified by a File ID of DICOMDIR.

For instance, DICOM-compliant data CDs contain a DICOMDIR at the root level which contains a description and access information for all the studies on the CD.

In PMOD, the DICOMDIR similarly describes the DICOM files residing under a root directory, eg.

This file can be maintained by PMODs DICOM server which updates the information after receiving and storing new images (see also the ).

The PVIEW tool has a handy function to create a DICOMDIR file which registers all DICOM files contained in a directory tree (see also the section ).

This function is called by the Create Dicomdir entry in the Menu and opens the following dialog.

The Change Folder opens a file browser to select the root directory of the tree containing the DICOM files to be registered.

Just drop a directory on the programs interface and it will parse the tree structure rooted at that directory, extract the information of all the DICOM part 10 files it find and create a DICOMDIR file for these in the root directory.

However, to really create the DICOMDIR file, the Create button must be activated.

LEADTOOLS provides the class, which is derived from, to simplify the process of creating DICOM Directories for file-sets.

As a demonstration of a typical usage of the LDicomDir class, lets suppose that we need to build the DICOM Directory of the file-set defined by the files contained in the folder C: DICOM Images and in any subfolders.

This folder is then the destination folder of the DICOMDIR File.

At the beginning of the application, the destination folder should be specified.

This can be done either at construction time or later by using the function.

Create Dicomdir From Dicom Files Viewer