DICOM @ OFFIS

It took me some time to anonymize the dicomdir file (usign gdcm). I've mailed the anonymized file just a moment ago. Thank you for offering to check the file!

Christina Rossmanith

I've checked the dicomdir file using dvtk (dicom.dvtk.org) and it gave me no errors or warnings. It was created by dcm4chee.

A corrupt file would be the only explanation for the messages I get during reading the file?

If I access DICOMDIR with DcmFileFormat.loadFile() I get a lot of error or warning messages: DcmItem: Element (0000,0000) found twice in one dataset/item, ignoring second entry < repeated 17 times> DcmItem: Dataset not in ascending tag order, at element (0004,00ae) DcmItem: Length of attribute (2d5c...

That means I would read DICOMDIR twice:

1) Using DcmDirectoryRecord to get the tree structure
2) Using DcmDataset to get additional information from the FileSetID Module

I'm quite new to dcmtk. My first attempt was to use search() and getOFString(), now I'm starting to optimize

Thank you!

Hi, so far I've successfully read the tree structure of a DICOMDIR file (patients, studies, series, images) using DcmDicomDir and DcmDirectoryRecord. Now I'd like to read the FileSetID information from a DICOMDIR file. If I use search(DCM_FileSetID, dcm_stack) on the root record it returns with an e...