#! /bin/sh
# file: reformat-dicom G. Moody 17 August 2001
#
# This script uses 'convert' to reformat a multi-frame DICOM input file into
# two alternate representations. 'convert' is part of ImageMagick, included
# in many Linux distributions and freely available for many other platforms
# (including Unix, MacOS, and MS-Windows) from http://www.imagemagick.org/.)
case $# in
1) IFILE=$1 ;;
*) echo -n "Enter the name of the DICOM file to be converted: "
read IFILE ;;
esac
# Extract the ID from the input file name.
ID=`basename $1 .dcm`
# Create an animated GIF from a multi-frame DICOM input file.
convert -loop 0 $1 $ID.gif
# Split the input file into a set of single-frame PNG files.
convert $1 $ID%03d.png