Siemens CSA header

[bsapach]

Hello again everyone,

Now I've learned that elements (0029,1010) and (0029,1020) are a Siemens private element of some sort, and contain many items that seem (to me) to be missing elsewhere in the dicom file. I've seen this refered to as the CSA or CSA2 header. Does anyone know anything about this section of the Siemens data files? Are there functions in DCMTK that could read this information? I've found a function in SPM (matlab) that can read this data in a brute-force sort of way but if anyone has anything more concrete, I would prefer it.

Beau

[Alexander Fedotov]

[quote="bsapach"]
Hello again everyone,

Now I've learned that elements (0029,1010) and (0029,1020) are a Siemens private element of some sort, and contain many items that seem (to me) to be missing elsewhere in the dicom file. I've seen this refered to as the CSA or CSA2 header. Does anyone know anything about this section of the Siemens data files?
[/quote]

You can find some kind of information in Siemens's DICOM Conformance Statements, for example here:
http://www.medical.siemens.com/siemens/ ... _VC00B.pdf

[quote="bsapach"]
Are there functions in DCMTK that could read this information?
[/quote]

I guess, if DCMTK can dump it, then it can read it