[R] DICOM package wont read my DICOM files

[Uwe Ligges]

Christoph Niedermayr wrote:

> Hello there!
> 
> I hope there is someone out there who is using the DICOM package.
> When Im trying to read my a DICOM file (MRI-data) I always get this
> error:
> 
> 
>>dicom.info("~/myfile")
> 
> Error in readBin(fid, integer(), length, size = 1) : 
> 	invalid value of 'n'
> 
> The DICOM files that come with the DICOM package work just fine.
> I already tried both endian options.
> 
> I can view my DICOM files in several viewers, and after converting them
> to ANALYZE with "medcon", I can read them in R using the AnalyzeFMRI
> package.
> The only thing is: medcon gives me "warning: Incorrect sequence length",
> but the files work fine in every application I tried so far. Except the
> DICOM package, that is.
> 
> I'm using R 2.1.1 and DICOM 0.12
> Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to supply any of the files causing the
> error :(

Please ask the DICOM maintainer for help.
Maybe you can generate a small example file that causes the same error 
and helps the maintainer to see what is going on.

Uwe Ligges


> TIA,
> Chris
> 
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