[Dcmlib] Tested machine and file reading capabilities

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Jun 14, 2005, at 1:17 PM, Luca Picello wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> I wonder if there is a list of CT machines tested with gdcm (ie: 
> philips model submodel blabla, siemens model submodel revision).

I have no idea really. I know some people at CREATIS tried it on some 
philips station and here in the US some people tried on GE 
workstation... that's all I know

> I wonder also if in my c++ program, where I already use the 
> vtkGdcmReader, I need to call regular gdcm namespace or is there a 
> simpler way to get some files information like patient name...
>

The trick is that there are ~2000 DICOM tags, do you want all of them ? 
This is humanily prohibitive to maintain (also lot of wated time). At 
some point I wanted something semi-automatic for the generation of such 
thing. But I realize that all you need is really a few field. So to 
keep GDCM API simple we decided not to pollute gdcm with simple 
accessors like that (or until a nice semi -automatic solution is 
found).

For more info about the DICOM tag / DICOM Name equivalence, search in 
gdcm/Dict/dicomV3.dic

HTH
Mathieu