DICOM @ OFFIS

Hi Michael Onken
You are right that it is not the right place. I aLso wanted to post it in DICOM forrum, but by mistake I posted it.
Anyway, thank you for your reply.

Regrds
Subhra

Can anyone please tell me what is the significance of this DistanceSourceToPatient ? If it is distance from the source to patient/Bed, the I am really surprised, how this is measured?

Yes you are right. We can also write as "ref2d_filename.c_str()" as ref2d_filename is is a vector of <string>.

Now its working fine. Thank you very much Riesmeier. Hope you will like it now ref2d_filename.at(1).c_str() returns my DICOM file name. ------------------------------ OFCondition status; DcmFileFormat fileformat; double value ; status = fileformat.loadFile( ref2d_filename.at(1).c_str()); if (status....

Finally I could write this, as you suggested to use findAndGetFloat64. But I am getting a "0" value while the value is "35.75" OFCondition status; DcmFileFormat fileformat; status = fileformat.loadFile( ref2d_filename.at(1).c_str(), EXS_Unknown, EGL_noChange, DCM_MaxReadLength, E...

Thank you Riesmeier. I wrote a code till this point: But then I am confused. Can you help me? OFCondition status; DcmFileFormat fileformat; status = fileformat.loadFile( ref2d_filename.at(1).c_str(), EXS_Unknown, EGL_noChange, DCM_MaxReadLength, ERM_metaOnly ); DcmElement *element = NULL; DcmDataset...

I am a new user of DICOM. I want to read a specific DICOM Tag value from a .dcm file and store that value in a variable of type Double. I am using C++ and working on 2D-3D registration. Please help.