

As you can see in the dcmgpdir manual, there are several options (-.) that allow you to work around missing data in the DICOM files or other problems. That should create the DICOMDIR.Ĭopy the DICOMDIR and the DICOM directory on a CD or USB stick, whatever your new software reads from, give it a try, and tell me what the result is.

Then go into your base dir and call "dcmgpdir.exe +id. Do not put any other files into the base and DICOM directory. In order to avoid mistakes, do not create further sub directories under "DICOM". Otherwise you will have problems creating the DICOMDIR or importing it. Make sure that all DICOM file names only consists of capital letters, numbers, underscore, and no file ending (i.e. Put your DICOM files into a sub directory (for simplicty, use "DICOM") of that base dir. It is part of the toolkit executables that you can download from the regular download page.

That being said, DCMTK has a tool (dcmgpdir) to create a DICOMDIR that references existing DICOM files. by asking the user) which files to import.

The idea is that a software reads the DICOMDIR and can use the information to decide (e.g. patient ID, name, birth date, file path, study date and so on). Instead, it is a Table of Content that references DICOM files and has basic information about each (e.g. It produces an output data tree containing the information of the DICOM images and their related radiological studies, which can be browsed easily in a structured way through navigation interfaces coupled to it.Actually the DICOMDIR file is not a replacement for the DICOM files (.dcm) files at hand. To solve this problem, this work introduces an object-oriented design and an open-source implementation for such reading tool. However, these libraries do not provide suitable tools for reading DICOMDIR files, making necessary the implementation of a flexible tool for reading these files, which can be also easily integrated into applications under development. During the medical application software development, specialized programming libraries are commonly used in order to solve the requirements of computation and scientific visualization. AbstractDICOMDIR directory files are useful in medical software applications because they allow organized access to images and information sets that come from radiological studies that are stored in conformance with the digital imaging and communication in medicine (DICOM) standard.
