[Insight-users] Reading DICOM Private Tags

[Mathieu Malaterre]

You can still load a private tag, even if you do not have the
associated private dictionary. This is by design since some
manufacturer are known for not publishing information on their private
tags.

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, I just did a google search and found this:
> http://www.nabble.com/GDCM-custom-tag-dictionary-td7886183.html
>
> Looks like DicomImageReadPrintTags has an optional second argument
> that permits you to add an additiona dicom dictionary. I think there
> are some sample ones in Utilities/gdcm/Dicts.
>
> Bill
>
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ufuk,
>>
>> I believe that gdcm allows you to specify a dicom dictionary at
>> run-time. This might allow you to access the Philips tags. Perhaps
>> Mathieu can point you in the direction of some documentation on this
>> or explain the procedure.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:40 AM, ufuk mat <ufukmat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I got a dicomdir and need to gather some information about the imaging
>>> parameters from the file.  To be more specific, I wanna know
>>>
>>> echo time, repetition time, scan technique ( spin echo etc. ) row and column
>>> number of the slices.
>>>
>>> I can get the values corresponding to the row and column as they are
>>> standard tags. However, philips uses its own private tags and they are
>>> (2001,1025) for
>>>
>>> echo time and  (2005,1030) for repetition time. I can not read these values
>>> even if I manually enter them as strings.
>>>
>>> I use ITK 3.10 and the example DicomImageReadPrintTags.cxx almost directly.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>
>>> --
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>



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Mathieu