Rename directory of stored images

[jsolomon]

Hello,
First, thank you for your software. I have been using the storescp application with the -ss option. I see that I am allowed to use a prefix such that the subdirectory containing my stored dicom files has a name <prefix>_<date>_<time>. I would like to replace the prefix with the value of a dicom tag such as patientid or patient name. Since these values are not known to me when I start up the storescp process, I am not able to set the prefix to these values. Can you suggest a method of using patient name as the prefix?

Thanks again,
Jeff

[Jörg Riesmeier]

A new option like this has already been added to the internal development version of DCMTK:

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**** Changes from 2006.07.14 (eichelberg)

- Added new command line option --sort-on-patientsname that sorts images into
  study folders named by the patient's name followed by a timestamp.
  Thanks to Prashant Nair <e-mail-address-removed> for the contribution
  on which the implementation is based.
  Affects: dcmnet/apps/storescp.cc
           dcmnet/docs/storescp.man

In case you're interested, we could make a current CVS snapshot available to you. Just send an e-mail to dicom/at/offis/dot/de.