The exact error message is:



I can load the image without errors using ImageJ and Sante DICOM Viewer FREE, but not using MicroDicom, so there must be something wrong with my image. I counted on DVT to tell me what...

I also tried to look at the DICOM header using DCMEditor, but it crashed similarly. I could look at the header using Sante DICOM Hexadecimal Viewer, but it's quite gruesome to find the error manually.

I'm using the latest version (2.6.6), on Windows XP SP3, 32 bits, with all the latest updates.

I tried to attach the image, but even compressed with .7z, it exceeds the 1000 K limit (it's a little over 4 MB). So I uploaded it to Mediafire, here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?p3denwo4c905iub

Hi Karsten,

a few years ago, we received a software contribution from Agfa to be able to display strings that are encoded with a subset of character sets that are defined by the DICOM standard. This has been build into e.g. DVT and the Storage SCP Emulator.

The current set of character sets for which this is possible can be found in the <install directory>\Storage SCP Emulator\CharacterSets. GB 18030 is however not part of the supported character sets.

After implementing this display funcionality we tried multipe times to get a description from the software developer from Agfa (we created the original code) how we could extend the set of supported character sets. My guess is he was to busy with other things as we did not receive this information...

So in this case, I don't think we can help you with this.

If somehow you would like to give it a try to extend the character sets, please let us know, so we can pinpoint you to the code involved.

Regards,
Marco

It worked, thanks!

I've had this problem with DICOM Compare, I'll try the fix and hope that it works. (I'm running Windows with English language but Swedish formats).

Hi all,

is it possible to enhance the Storage SCP Emulator to display characters from GB 18030 character set?

Regards
Karsten Mueller

LS,

all DICOMDIR attributes can now be accessed using the DVTk high level interface. The DVTk DICOM Editor is based on the DVTK high level interface and is able to show all attributes, including the ones that make up the DICOMDIR records.

You will be able to access all the values of each attribute. I would however not recommend changing any of the attributes that make up the DICOMDIR records unless you know exactly what you are doing: these records contain offset attributes that you would need to change also when adding/removing attributes or changing the value of an attribute to a value with a different length.

Regards,
Marco

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Regards,
Marco

LS,

the "DVTk high level interface" attribute values part is string based to make it easy to use. Because of this, getting the array of bytes from an OB, OF or OW attribute has not been implemented as this was not the primary goal of the high level interface.

If you need such functionality, please create a ticket on this web site.

Regards,
Marco