Date of Birth (0010,0030) in DicomDir

[AndreasKnopke]

Hello there,

when creating a DicomDir with dcmmkdir.exe the 0010,0030 tag is not respected. Most of the DicomDir files created by other vendors include this information, why not dcmmkdir? I can not find anything in Dicom Part 10 document about this data tag.

regards,

Andreas

[Jörg Riesmeier]

Patient's Birth Date (0010,0030) is not required for all application profiles (i.e. type 3). The attribute is type 2 for the three cardiac profiles and type 1C for the rather new General Purpose DVD, USB & Flash and MPEG2 profiles. In case you want to add this attribute for other application profiles your need to modify DicomDirInterface::buildPatientRecord() in "dcmdata/libsrc/dcddirif.cc".

Btw, part 10 is the wrong document to look at. The general directory records are described in part 3, application profiles in part 11.

[AndreasKnopke]

Thanks for your reply,

I will have a look at the DicomInterface class.

regards,
Andreas