csa

Module contents

CSA headers are Siemens-specific private data elements that are embedded in some DICOM headers, specifically as the (0029, 1010)/”CSA Image Header Info” and (0029, 1020)/”CSA Series Header Info” tags. For more information see this NiBabel article.

Submodules

dicom_parser.utils.siemens.csa.ascii.element module

dicom_parser.utils.siemens.csa.ascii.header module

Definition of the CsaAsciiHeader.

class dicom_parser.utils.siemens.csa.ascii.header.CsaAsciiHeader(header: Union[str, bytes])

Bases: object

Represents and handles the parsing of CSA header values returned by pydicom as bytes.

ENCODING = 'ISO-8859-1'

The header’s ASCII-based character encoding.

property n_slices: int

Returns the number of slices (tiles) in a mosaic.

Returns

Number of slices encoded as a 2D mosaic

Return type

int

parse() → dict

Parses ASCCONV header values as dict of dicts / list / scalars. CsaAsciiElement instances (or all if left None) as a dictionary.

Parameters

elements (list, optional) – CsaAsciiElement instances, by default None

Returns

Header information as a dictionary

Return type

dict

property parsed: dict

Caches the parsed dictionary as a private attribute.

Returns

Header information as dictionary

Return type

dict

dicom_parser.utils.siemens.csa.ascii.parser module