Patient Date Of Birth coming as 0

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angad · #1 Post by **angad** » Tue, 2012-02-07, 08:22

Hi All,

I have some dicom files in which patient date of birth is coming as "0" where as patient age is present(031Y).

Should i treat such dicom files as Corrupted dicom file or not ?

Thanks in advance!!!!

Thanks,
Angad Nath

J. Riesmeier · #2 Post by **J. Riesmeier** » Tue, 2012-02-07, 09:17

Do you mean Patient's Birth Date (0010,0030) has a string value of "0"? Of course, this would be incorrect (see definition of VR=DA in DICOM PS 3.5). An empty element value would be ok, since PatientBirthDate is of type 2 in the Patient Module.

angad · #3 Post by **angad** » Tue, 2012-02-07, 09:23

Hi,

Thanks for your quick reply.

Yes dicom files are coming with Patient's Birth Date (0010,0030) with string value "0".

So should i treat such files as corrupted or not ?

Thanks,
Angad Nath

J. Riesmeier · #4 Post by **J. Riesmeier** » Tue, 2012-02-07, 09:25

So should i treat such files as corrupted or not ?

It is a violation of the DICOM standard, but how you treat it is up to you (because it depends on your use case).

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Patient Date Of Birth coming as 0

Patient Date Of Birth coming as 0

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