[ITK-users] Access DICOM private tags using SimpleITK

[Lowekamp, Bradley (NIH/NLM/LHC) [C]]

Hello,

To get all the tags from the dicom files you need to load them individually. Something along these lines, but iterating over the list generated by GetGDCMSeriesFileNames:

from __future__ import print_function

import SimpleITK as sitk
import sys, os

if len ( sys.argv ) < 2:
    print( "Usage: DicomImagePrintTags <input_file>" )
    sys.exit ( 1 )

inputImage = sitk.ReadImage( sys.argv[1] )

for k in inputImage.GetMetaDataKeys():
    v = inputImage.GetMetaData(k)
    print("({0}) = = \"{2}\"".format(k,v))


HTH,
Brad



> On May 23, 2016, at 3:31 PM, Mathew Guilfoyle <mrguilfoyle at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In ITK the GDCMSeriesFileNames class (equivalently the ImageSeriesReader$GetGDCMSeriesFileNames method from Simple ITK) can both take arguments to read private DICOM tags (typically manufacturer specific info that does not follow the general standard.)
> 
> I cannot figure out how to use this function to actually read in a series of images or a volume with the hidden tags (I know they are there as I can see them in Osirix!)
> 
> The list of filenames that the two methods above return as no different whether the 'loadPrivateTags'  attribute is set on or off.
> 
> Any ideas how I can access the private tags?
> 
> Cheers
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