[Insight-developers] DICOM UID Generation + Mac address

[David Clunie]

One further comment on this, for testing, if you don't have a
commercial workstation like Bill's AW readily to hand.

You can use something like the "dcdirmk" utility in my dicom3tools
to try to build a DICOMDIR (media directory) from the set of images
you have created. The OFFIS toolkit has a similar utility.

This will try to build a patient/study/series/image hierarchy using
the UIDs as unique keys, and report if there are internal inconsistencies.

You can then do a "dcdirdmp" on the result to make sure that the
tree that is printed out matches what you expect (all images that
should be in the same study, series, etc. are).

You can also use "dciodvfy" to make sure that the UIDs are of the
correctly encoded form, not too long, etc. This will have the side
effect of reporting on many other encoding errors and standards
violations that might be present in the instances, which is probably
helpful too.

David