A couple of simple tools to create a (somewhat) unique signature of *.dat files and DICOM files from siemens MRI systems
To install:
go get github.com/hansenms/siemensraw/...
To get a signature from a datfile:
datsignature <DATFILENAME>
To get a signature from a DICOM:
dicomsignature <DICOMFILE>
If signatures from DICOM and *.dat file match, there is a pretty good chance that the images were generated from the *.dat file.
The package also provides a tool for extracting any buffer from Siemens *.dat files:
datbuffer -b Phoenix <DATFILENAME>
Finally there are some tools for creating a filesystem based database for raw data files:
addfile -b <BASEPATH TO BE REMOVED> -d <DESTINATION FOLDER> <DATFILENAME>
To add an entire folder with lots of *.dat files to the database:
find <FOLDER TO SEARCH> -name "*.dat" -exec addfile -b /mnt/cnmc/ -d <DATABASE PATH> {} \;
To subsequently locate a particular *.dat file based on signature:
findraw -d <DATABASE PATH> <SIGNATURE>
The output is in json format and you can use a tool like jq to extract info from the output:
findraw -d <DATABASE PATH> <SIGNATURE> | jq .