from /usr/local/bin/dcanon

#!/bin/sh
#
# Usage: $0 srcdir dstdir [options [newpatientname newpatientid]]
#
# where options is a SINGLE string, either empty or possibly containing:
#
#       nodesc - remove descriptions (equals nopatientdesc,nostudydesc,noseriesdesc,noimagedesc)
#       nopatientdesc - remove descriptions at patient level
#       nostudydesc - remove descriptions at study/procedure level
#       noseriesdesc - remove descriptions at series and procedure step level
#       noimagedesc - remove descriptions at image level
#       nomanuf - remove manufacturer
#       noretired - remove retired ACR-NEMA elements or other elements that are undesirable
#       noclinicaltrial - remove clinical trial related attributes
#       keepprivate - do not remove private elements
#       keepsafeprivate - keep safe private attributes only, e.g. Philips private PET SUV factor
#       keepuids - do not replace UIDs
#       keeppet - keep parameters for PET SUV calculation (age,sex,size,weight)
#       verify - verify afterwards
#       diff - show difference afterwards
#       mvdatedesc - more results to descriptive hierarchy (default)
#       mvid - more results to hierarchy based on IDs
#       mv8only - more results to 8 character A-Z0-9_ component names
#       nomove - do not move into hierarchy
#       none - dummy option to allow specification of name and id arguments when no options
#
# e.g. dcanon src dst nodesc,nomanuf Smith^Mary 1234

https://github.com/rordenlab/dcm2niix

https://www.nitrc.org/plugins/mwiki/index.php/dcm2nii:MainPage#DICOM_Transfer_Syntaxes_and_Compressed_Images

https://support.dcmtk.org/docs/dcmodify.html