---
name: "TIFFToDicom"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "pixelmed-apps"
version: "20250211+dfsg-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/TIFFToDicom"
---

# TIFFToDicom(1)

Read a TIFF image input format file and create an image of a specified or appropriate SOP Class.

## NAME

TIFFToDicom - Read a TIFF image input format file and create an image of a specified or appropriate SOP Class.

## SYNOPSIS

**TIFFToDicom** *jsonfile inputFile outputFilePrefix* \[*modality* \[*SOPClass* \[*TransferSyntax*\]\]\] \[*ADDTIFF\|DONOTADDTIFF*\] \[*USEBIGTIFF\|DONOTUSEBIGTIFF*\] \[*ALWAYSWSI\|NOTALWAYSWSI*\] \[*ADDPYRAMID\|DONOTADDPYRAMID*\] \[*MERGESTRIPS\|SPLITSTRIPS*\] \[*ADDDCMSUFFIX\|DONOTADDDCMSUFFIX*\] \[*INCLUDEFILENAME\|DONOTINCLUDEFILENAME*\] \[*CHANNELFILE channelfile*\] \[*SPACINGMM spacingmm*\] \[*SPACINGROWCOLMM spacingrowmm(y) spacingcolmm(x)*\] \[*THICKNESSMM thickness*\]

## DESCRIPTION

Error: Incorrect number of arguments or bad arguments

## OPTIONS

 jsonfile - JSON file describing the functional groups and attributes and values to be added or replaced\
  inputFileName -\
  outputFilePrefix -\
  outputFileSuffix -\
  modality - may be null\
  sopClass - may be null\
  transferSyntax - may be null, used if multiframe, ignored if single frame (which is always written uncompressed)\
  addTIFF - whether or not to add a TIFF IFD in the DICOM preamble to make a dual=personality DICOM-TIFF file sharing the same pixel data\
  useBigTIFF - whether or not to create a BigTIFF rather than Classic TIFF file\
  alwaysWSI - whether or not to add WSI-related information even if not WSI SOP Class, e.g., for float converted to parametric map\
  addPyramid - whether or not to add multi-resolution pyramid (downsampled) layers to the TIFF IFD and a corresponding DICOM private data element in the same file\
  mergeStrips - whether or not to merge an image with more than one strip into a single DICOM image, or to create a separate image or frame for each strip\
  channelFile - may be null\
  includeFileName - whether or not to record the original filename in the DICOM output\
  spacingrowmm - PixelSpacing 1st value - spacing between adjacent rows (i.e. "y" spacing) (in mm) to use to override base layer spacing in case it is incorrect or not present (may be 0 if not supplied)\
  spacingcolmm - PixelSpacing 2nd value - spacing between adjacent columns (i.e. "x" spacing) (in mm) to use to override base layer spacing in case it is incorrect or not present (may be 0 if not supplied)\
  thicknessmm - SliceThickness and ImagedVolumeDepth value (in mm) to use (may be 0 if not supplied)

## EXAMPLES

$ TIFFToDicom /etc/pixelmed/TIFFToDicom.WSI.json CMU-1.svs my\_wsi SM 1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.77.1.6

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Mathieu Malaterre \<malat@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

## SEE ALSO

OrthancWSIDicomizer