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In practice, the files can be viewed just fine in any standard-compliant viewer without any awareness of custom tags. Source: I wrote the DICOM viewer & anonym
by danielheath 4y ago
In practice, the files can be viewed just fine in any standard-compliant viewer without any awareness of custom tags.
Source: I wrote the DICOM viewer & anonymizer for Radiopaedia (okay, most of the heavy lifting is done by cornerstone.js).
- thfuran 4y agoFor certain definitions of "just fine". Some manufacturers will use a private tag to hold the same information that's meant to be in a standard tag—and even sometimes put different values in the two, with the private tag being correct.
- vladsiv 4y ago> Some manufacturers will use a private tag to hold the same information that's meant to be in a standard tag... Agree! Also some applications have "special" features that rely on data stored in private tags which, of course, you don't have any idea how to use.
- brnt 4y agoViewer of what? Dicom can contain other things than just nD imagery. Also, the difficulty in my experience is the getting data back in part; getting data out is usually a lot easier (you don't need to care about those tags).