[dcmlib] Dicom images produced by ITK

[Mathieu Malaterre]

ITK is simply using gdcm 1.0.x

We would either need to
- Fix gdcm 1.0.x on our side
- Update gdcm to a version from CVS, but then we would need to release 
something like gdcm 1.2....

Mathieu

Jean-Pierre Roux wrote:
> Hi, Mathieu.
> 
> I just get Dicom images written by the ITK writer
> (I read a .png image, I wrote it as a .dcm image)
> 
>>From a strict DICOM point of view, I disagree with some minor details
> (probabely nobody in the ITK community cares about them, but a PACS should
> do ...)
> 
> In the meta elements :
> 
> V 0002|0002 [UI]  [Media Storage SOP Class UID] [1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.2
> ]  ==> [CT Image Storage]
> Since it's a 'modified' image , we should have :
> V 0002|0002 [UI]  [Media Storage SOP Class UID] [1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.7
> ]  ==> [Secondary Capture Image Storage]
> 
> V 0008|0060 [CS]    [Modality] [CT]
> Since it's an image 'made out of nothing' we should have :
> V 0008|0060 [CS]    [Modality] [OT]
> (OT  stands for 'other" : any modality but an existing one
> In this particular image, since 0028|0100 [US] [Bits Allocated] = 8, sure
> it's NOT a CT image .
> A PACS should reject this image as inconsistent.
> 
> -->
> V 0008|0016 [UI] [SOP Class UID] [1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.2 ]  ==> [CT
> Image Storage]
> 
> 0008|0016 [SOP Class UID] should be 1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.7 (seconday
> Capture, also)
> 
> I read :
> V 0020|0052 [UI]   [Frame of Reference UID]
> [1.2.826.0.1.3680043.2.1125.1.827313123916.2005100617484383933 ]
> Frame Of Reference UID is only meaningfull for a 'Serie', and should refer
> to an existing SOP Instance UID.
> The best ITK  writter has to do is NOT to write it.
> 
> And finally, some strange stuff from the DICOM norm :
> The following fields have a type of '2' (the tag is mandatory, but its
> value may be missing (?!?)
> 0x0010, 0x0030 Patient's Birth Date
> 0x0010, 0x0040 Patient Sex
> 0x0008, 0x0090 Referring Physician's Name
> 
> Could you forward this mail to ITK developpers.
> Thx
> 
> JP
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