OPENDICOM is an auxillary function to SOPEN for opening of DICOM files for reading ECG waveform data Use SOPEN instead of OPENDICOM See also: fopen, SOPEN, References: [1] http://www.dclunie.com/dicom-status/status.html#BaseStandard2003 [2] http://medical.nema.org/Dicom/supps/sup30_lb.pdf