[Insight-users] Unable to write dicom tag using GDCMImageIO

[Bill Lorensen]

If I recall, tags that are related to orientation and spacing cannot be
changed. You must change the orientation of the data before you write the
dicom file. The writer will output the proper tag that goes with the data.

On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 5:21 AM, suicheng gu <gusuch at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was trying to chage the image orientation tag using
> itk::EncapsulateMetaData<std::string>(dict1,"0020|0037",
> "1\\0\\0\\0\\0\\1");
> But the image orientation was still 1\0\0\0\1\0
>
>
>
> I also tested the provided exmaple:
> InsightToolkit-4.1.0\Examples\IO\DicomImageReadChangeHeaderWrite.cxx
>
> It works for some tags, such as the instance number:
> DicomImageReadChangeHeaderWrite $infile$ $outfile$ 0020|0013 10
>
> But it failed on the image orientation: DicomImageReadChangeHeaderWrite
> $infile$ $outfile$  0020|0037 1\0\0\0\0\1
>
>
>
> Anyone can help?
> Thanks in advance.
> Suicheng
>
>
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