[Insight-users] DicomImageReadChangeHeaderWrite doesn't change header values

Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malaterre at kitware.com
Mon Dec 18 15:58:58 EST 2006


Angela Wang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying out DicomImageReadChangeHeaderWrite in Insight/Examples/IO.
> 
> It is not changing the header entries of the output dicom file.  I am 
> running it with command line input arguments:
> 
> InImage.dcm Out.dcm "0008|0012" 22220202
> 
> which should change the "Instance Creation Date" value to 22220202.  
> Nothing changes.  I also tried to input the date as a string, still 
> nothing changes.
> InImage.dcm Out.dcm "0008|0012" "22220202"
> 
> Could someone help me out with this?


Angela,

	This is not an entry you should be modifying (by definition). Why do 
you want to change that value ? Are you sure you want to change the 
Instance Creation Date and not Acquisition Date (0008|0022) ?

Thanks
Mathieu


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