dbdicom.Record.children

Record.children(**kwargs) → list

Return all children of the record.

Parameters:

kwargs – Provide any number of valid DICOM (tag, value) pair as keywords to filter the list.

Returns:

A list of all children.

Return type:

list

See also

parent() siblings() series() studies() patients() database()

Example

Find the patients of a given database:

>>> database = db.database_hollywood()
>>> patients = database.children()
>>> print([p.PatientName for p in patients])
['James Bond', 'Scarface']

Find all patients with a given name:

>>> patients = database.children(PatientName='James Bond')
>>> print([p.PatientName for p in patients])
['James Bond']

Find the studies that have been performed on a given patient: >>> studies = patients[0].children() >>> print([s.StudyDescription for s in studies]) [‘MRI’, ‘Xray’]