[Dcmlib] Re: CREATIS CVS: gdcm jpr

[Mathieu Malaterre]

> You get an image, in which Public groups are explicitVR, and Shadow 
> groups are ImplicitVR.
> (We have tons of thoose images)

Well I only need one example, I haven't seen any in gdcmData, so I am 
just curious where you found it. Thanks for sending me a sample.

> If you take into account a 'shadow dict' (as stored in Dicts), since not 
> *all* the shadow elements are described in the shadow dict, you will get 
> (in gdcm::File), within a single shadow group, a mix of ExplicitVR and 
> ImplicitVR DataElements.
> At Write time, some shadow groups may be 'non VR homogeneous'
> 
> I commented out the shadow dictionaries in Dicts/CMakeLists.txt, that 
> was enought to solve the pb.

So why did you also had to modify gdcmDocument.cxx ?

> (What I was talking about in my commit was a concomittant pb :
> Since we know the elements 0001 - 0010 of a shadow group must always 
> have a VR = "LO", we (I) forced it to LO, when it was ImplicitVR.
> --> same pb occured.
> I don't force any longer; the pb is solved, too.

Where is this specified (which DICOM PS) ?

Thanks
Mathieu