DICOM @ OFFIS

Thanks for your answers. For the "official" DICOM file format, a check is easy: at byte offset 128 you will find the magic word "DICM". However, there is also an old, inofficial (pre-1995) file format that is used by some older DICOM tools. For this format, no identifier exists. ...

Hello I implemented a simple function to check whether a given file is a valid DICOM or not. I'm recursively scanning some directories and non-DICOM files can be there and there. My code is based on the assumption that "loadFile" from DcmFileFormat will return a bad status if the file isn'...

Thanks for your quick answer

Hello Just wondering about something. Can a single DICOM file contains more than one study ? I'm a bit confused with the VM (value multiplicity) attribute of some tags. In that case, how to navigate between the studies stored in this single dcm file ? I checked the Dicom information model and a &quo...

Solved - see my answer below for those interested... Hello I'm quite new to DICOM and DCMTK in general, I'm trying to understand how queries do work. I set up a ConQuest server listening on port 5678 (version 1.4.9a - I also tried with 1.4.8 -). Echoscu is working, I could also send some .dcm onto t...