Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: pfile-tools
Version: 0.3.0
Summary: UNKNOWN
Home-page: https://github.com/njvack/pfile-tools
Author: Nathan Vack
Author-email: njvack@wisc.edu
License: BSD License
Description: h1. pfile-tools: GE P-File Utilities
        
        This package provides a library refrence to GE's proprietary P-file format for their MR scanners. This is not a translation of their copyrighted header files, but a re-implementation. It's designed to let you catalog and anonymize your raw data, and hopefully provide enough information to run your own reconstruction.
        
        In addition to the library, pfile-tools provides small scripts to display pfile header values and do an anomymization.
        
        h2. Status
        
        Header support is limited to stuff we've needed in-house or stuff that's really obvious. If you need something added, let me know.
        
        Also, we currently only support reading revision 20 of the files. I suspect that it'll also effectively work on other revisions (particularly 22), but I don't know for sure which. Let me know!
        
        h2. Installation
        
        <pre>
          $ easy_install pfile_tools
        </pre>
        
        (Or use pip if you're cool like that.)
        
        h2. API Usage
        
        <pre>
          >>> from pfile_tools import headers
          >>> pfile = headers.Pfile.from_file('/path/to/PXXXX.7')
          >>> print(pfile.revision)
          20
          >>> print(pfile.header.exam_number)
          5313
          >>> print(pfile.header.exam_datetime)
          datetime(2012, 3, 6, 10, 47, 42)
        </pre>
        
        Pfile.header is a Python "ctypes Structure":http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html#ctypes.Structure.
        
        h2. dump_pfile_header
        
        Does what it says on the tin -- dumps a p-file's header to standard out, in a delimited (by default, tab-delimited) format.
        
        <pre>
          Usage: dump_pfile_header [OPTIONS] pfile
        
          Dumps header information from a GE P-file
        
          Options:
            -h, --help            show this help message and exit
            -r REVISION, --revision=REVISION
                                  Force a header revision (available: 20)
            --offsets             Show offsets to data elements
            --sizes               Show data element sizes
            --show-padding        Print unknown 'padding' elements
            --separator=SEPARATOR
                                  Output field separator (default: \t)
        </pre>
        
        h2. anonymize_pfile
        
        Strips personally-identifying information from a p-file.
        
        <pre>
          Usage: anonymize_pfile.py [OPTIONS] pfile pfile_out
        
          Removes personally-identifying information from a GE P-file
        
          Options:
            -h, --help            show this help message and exit
            -r REVISION, --revision=REVISION
                                  Force a header revision (available: 20)
            --inplace             Edit file in-place. Ignores pfile_out.
            -v, --verbose         Print lots of extra debugging.
        
            Anonymization options:
              --name=yes/no       Set patient name to 'ANONYMIZED' (yes)
              --id=yes/no         Set patient ID to 'ANONYMIZED' (yes)
              --dateofbirth=yes/no
                                  Set date of birth to '' (yes)
              --age=yes/no        Set age to 0 (yes)
              --weight=yes/no     Set weight to 0 (yes)
              --sex=yes/no        Set sex to 0 (yes)
        </pre>
        
        h2. License
        
        pfile_tools is provided under the short-and-sweet BSD license. See LICENSE.txt for more information.
        
        h2. Changes
        
        h3. 0.3.0:
        
        * Revamp, again, the version number detection code. It's the first *four* bytes, and it is indeed a float. Because, reasons. Fie on Python for its automatic conversion of floats to doubles. FIE. ON. YOU.
        * Add support for revision 16 files.
        
        h3. 0.2.0:
        
        * Detect version number differently -- now we're interpreting the first four bytes as a short representing version number, as opposed to using the first eight bytes as a float, which always seemed really strange anyhow. The downside is that the numbers don't seem to be what anyone calls the software revision. Sigh. Anyhow, this also handles pfiles written by the newest and greatest GE software; there were a couple of 8-byte padding shifts.
        
        h3. 0.1.3:
        
        * Started tracking changes. This version worked, more or less.
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