Retrieve and write patients to a path — retrieve_and_write

Retrieve the DICOM file contents for a list of Patients and write them to a path on disk. DICOM files are saved to disk in a directory structure of Patient -> Study -> Series -> File. If mirai::daemons() has been used to set persistent background processes, this function will write patients to disk in parallel using all available processes.

Usage

retrieve_and_write_patients(patients, path, progress = rlang::is_interactive())

Arguments

patients: List of Patients
path: Path where you want to write the patients (files).
progress: Whether to show progress bars. By default, progress bars are enabled in interactive sessions (i.e., if rlang::is_interactive() returns TRUE).

Value

Nothing, invisibly.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
client <- Orthanc$new("https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/demo")

patients <- find_patients(client, query = list(PatientName = "HN_P001"))

retrieve_and_write_patients(patients, tempdir())
} # }