[Dcmlib] [Fwd: Re: [Insight-users] GDCM orientation issue....]

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Yet another usefull shadow dicom tag (it is part of DICOM spec now under 
a different tag number).

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Subject: Re: [Insight-users] GDCM orientation issue....
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:03:18 -0400
From: Simon Warfield <>
To: Mathieu Malaterre <>
CC: Neil Weisenfeld <>,

Mathieu,

  I have another DICOM issue I wonder if you know the answer.  I happen
to have quite a lot of DICOM data that encodes a parameter called the
b-value in tag 0043,1039 with a VR of IS.  Recent editions of the DICOM
standard have made the tag 0018,9087 for storing this parameter, but our
images don't use it.

    Can I modify the local DICOM data dictionary in some transparent way
so that ITK will learn about this new tag  , or do I need to modify
./Utilities/gdcm/src/gdcmDefaultDicts.cxx  and recompile the entire
library ?