[Insight-users] How to sort DICOM slices by Patients Name

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Thimmaiah,

Right now the DICOM parser is not parsing the patient
name nor the patient ID.


You could add these tags to the file

   Insight/Utilities/DICOMParser/DICOMAppHelper.cxx

for example in line 180 you could add

>     {0x0010, 0x0010, DICOMParser::VR_PN, "Patient name"},



You could then follow the example of the method

void DICOMAppHelper
::GetSliceNumberFilenamePairs(
    dicomstd::vector<dicomstd::pair<int, dicomstd::string> >& v)

in line 984 of the same file, for creating a similar method
that gets the pairing of filenames and patient name.


Once you have this method in the DICOMAppHelper, you can
use it from the file

      Insight/Code/IO/itkDICOMSeriesFileNames.cxx

for selecting the files corresponding to the same patient.


     You may want to get some coffee first....  :-)


----

If you plan to do this just once and it is not part of a
task that you anticipate to perform continuously, you can
simply solve your immediate problem by using MRIConvert.

You can download it for free from Jolinda Smith's page

     http://lcni . uoregon . edu/~jolinda/MRIConvert

It will allow you to save the datasets in MetaImage,
Analyze and BrainVoyager formats.



Regards,


     Luis








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Thimmaiah, Sandhya wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a directory of DICOM images which has MRI images of 3 patients. I
> wanted to know if there is a way I can sort them according to patients or if
> I can just get one patients images. Thank you
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