[Insight-users] Reading DICOM time series study

Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malaterre at kitware.com
Tue Jul 12 09:14:47 EDT 2005


Martin Kavec wrote:
> Many thanks for the reply, Mark.
> 
> unfortunately, you are right. My images come from Philips, therefore I could 
> find the tags. However, the fMRI series from GE doesn't have the tags at all, 
> and even worst, they dont bother to update Image time and Series time either. 
> Or may be they do in the later software releases.

Well GE is right those tags are type 3 (Optional Data Elements):

Page 354 of Part 3.3:

http://medical.nema.org/dicom/2004/04_03PU.PDF

But again Date/Time are almost garantee to be right,
Mathieu


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