[Insight-users] Metadata handling - continued

[Richard Beare]

Hi,
I'm getting more of a feel for how things work, but I'm still a bit
confused. Firstly, I'm trying to work with conversion of dicom series
to other forms. I've used the examples of manipulating the dicom
directories to dump all the meta data as text from both the dictionary
array produced by the series reader and from a single image reader.
I've also found the GetPatientName, and related methods in the GDCM
classes. However the comments say that these are for compatability
with the DICOM2 classes. The examples (from CVS) use the dictionary
access methods (GetLabelFromTag, etc) to extract various tag/label
combinations. These tags have dicom specific names.

Is the "correct" approach to use construct a dictionary using the
dicom information, but ITK tags, such as ITK_PatientName and pass this
special dictionary to the writer? Is there something somewhere that
already does this? I think I've tried all of the obvious approaches
and don't appear to be getting details like patient name transferred
between dicom series and other formats, like analyze.

All advice welcome,

Thanks