DICOM @ OFFIS

The answer to question 1 is: No, the Q/R client does not use the "imagectn.cfg". For details see "ctnconf.txt". The answer to question 2 is: No, there is no way for the client to determine this information automatically. Maybe, the new DICOM configuration management service is wh...

The General Purpose application profile requires DICOM files to be encoded in Little Endian Explicit.

You could e.g. use dcmconv to change the transfer syntax from Big Endian to Little Endian Explicit using option +te.

:?: Is there a tool that converts common graphic formats like PGM/PPM, PNG, TIFF, JPEG or BMP to DICOM? :!: No, unfortunately, there is no such tool in DCMTK. Currently, you have to write your own little program for that purpose. The following code snippet from the toolkit's documentation could be a...

First of all, I would recommend a much easier way of accessing the value of particular data elements (in this case as a C string): dO->findAndGetString(tag, szTemp); Anyway, this question is probably not directly related to the DCMTK since up to now the toolkit does not contain support for specific ...

:?: When compiling DCMTK 3.5.3 with gcc I get compiler errors like 'xmlSchemaParserCtxtPtr' undeclared (first use this function) , 'xmlSchemaSetParserErrors' undeclared (first use this function) etc. :!: The libxml2 library on your system has been compiled without XML Schema support. You should eith...

Since this is a frequently asked question I've created a new entry: FAQ #30

:?: I would like to create and access a DICOMDIR file. What would be the preferred way? :!: For the creation of a DICOMDIR an easy to use wrapper class has been introduced with DCMTK 3.5.3. The following example from the toolkit's documentation shows how to use the class DicomDirInterface: DicomDirI...

I've forwarded your problem to the colleague who tested DCMTK 3.5.3 with VS .NET 2003. We'll have to wait for his response.

Nevertheless, as far as I can remember he recommended to delete all *.dsp and *.dsw files that are shipped with DCMTK before using CMake to create the *.sln files.

Jörg

Hayo, you should either add these private tags to the "private.dic" file which is part of the DCMTK or create a separate dictionary file. Please read the instructions in "private.dic" very carefully on how to specify private tags correctly. Whether the dictionary files are built ...

What about this one:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -US;834332

Strange problem ... For all of the projects in the dcmpstat directory there are large numbers of Additional Library Directories. On my system this setting was over 2500 characters long, and Visual Studio couldn't cope. However, some of the DCMTK directories included in this list did not actually exi...

does this mean that DCMTK software that has not been updated will also be vulnerable? Though I did not check the websites very intensively it seems to me that the PNG issue only applies to the import of malformed PNG images. Since DCMTK (as of version 3.5.3) does only export PNG files there should ...

Dave, but without private creator element the private tag (300b,1001) is not properly reserved according to part 5 of the DICOM standard :!: I'm curious as to the change in the value '31\30' to '10' . This is the value associated with the element, isn't it? Any idea why this might have changed. If t...

dave wrote:(300b,"MDACC",1001) PN TestElement 1

Hmm, does your test file contain the private creator element (300b,0010) with a value of "MDACC"

Jörg

Dave, under Windows the default is to have a built-in data dictionary, i.e. usually it is not required to set the environment variable. But if you set the variable the built-in dictionary is still used and the entries from the external dictionary file are added to it when the application starts. Det...