DICOM @ OFFIS

Thank you, J. Riesmeier, for your kind response.

After 4 phone calls, I found the RIGHT person who had the AE name and port number, and I received "I: Received Echo Response (Status: Success)".
And, yes, it was port 104!

Thanks, again.

Dave

I work in a hospital environment in the IS department. I have been asked if it is possible to have a Dicom ping utility, by which I guess I am being asked if the Dicom server software is running under expectable parameters. 1. Is this what the echoscu.exe tool is for (C:\DCMTK\bin>echoscu -d <applic...

Never mind. The lengeth is the vm multiplied by the byte allocation of the datatype. Guess we were comparing apples to oranges.

Thanks anyway.

dave

We are checking the length of tags with long values, (300a,0394 ScanSpotPositionMap where the length can be sometimes over 13,000), and we have found a discrepancy between what dcmdump and dcm2xml report vs. what we get when we copy/paste the value into Textpad, for example. Shorter lengths are all ...

(Why do I feel like I'm talking to myself <g>)

Ok. I see that dcmdump does this with the +p --search-all flags, but it does not include the bracketed item group offset. Hmmm...

I don't suppose there is a program in the DCMTK that displays the paths to the tags in a file?

Ermm... I see now that the [bracketed_number] in the example section for dcmodify (http://support.dcmtk.org/docs/dcmodify.html) refers to the array offset of the item groups. Painful as it was to count all this stuff out, we got the value of the second tag changed. Short answer: read the manual. Tha...

How can we use dcmodify to change a tag value when there are 2 tags at the same absolute path? Example: << dcmodify -v -m "(300a,03a2).(300a,03a8).(300a,0360).(300a,0362)=20" filename.dcm >> gives a path error. Using -ma instead of -m changes both tag values - not what we want - (but maybe...

Ok. The debug version works as expected. The release version gives the error as above. FWIW, the "Program too big to fit in memory" error is all over the web. Folks have had it in many situations, all seemingly related to XP and SP2. My apologies to those if this offends, but damn, I hate ...

Nope. Doesn't work. Same error message.

Anybody using dcmdump on XP with SP2?

David

Trying to track down an error when using dcmdump on XP with SP2. We have been using dcmdump v3.5.3 on Win2K with SP4 with no problem but get the error message: "Program too big to fit in memory" on XP. Both machines have 1G of memory. Could be something on our end but as far as I can tell,...

We tried out dcmdump and dump2dcm and both perform as expected. However, we notice that dump2dcm adds tag 0002,0013 with a value of OFFIS_DCMTK_354. Can someone explain the reason for this?

David

Thanks, Michael. Your reply is very helpful to us. Will dump2dcm.exe also do the group and item length recalulations that dcmodify.exe does? We need to also change a few other tags with shorter values, and we will use dcmodify for this, which I guess would let us know if we've made an invalid file? ...

We are trying to modify a pixel tag, "7fe0,0010", which is 512 KB in size, in a DRR dicom file. Essentailly we want to replace the current image with a blank one, where all the values are \0's. Trouble is this creates a command line argument string that is longer than what Windows allows (...

Thanks very much, Michael and Marco.

David