[Insight-users] Changing a DICOM Header... in a DICOM Series

[Bill Lorensen]

Try
 std::string entryId("0008|103e");
instead of
 std::string entryId("008|103e");

Bill

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Stéphane CALANDE <scalande at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi itk-list,
>
>
> I'm using the example of "DicomSeriesReadSeriesWrite", but I'd like to
> modify one DICOM header field before writing the Series.
>
> Then I had a look in "DicomImageReadChangeHeaderWrite" and I tried to apply
> the part of the code that change the header field into the code of
> "DicomSeriesReadSeriesWrite".
>
>
> But it doesn't seem to work. The field I want to change has not changed in
> the output files. Could you have a look in the (simplified) following code
> to help me ?
>
>
>
>   typedef signed short    PixelType;
>   const unsigned int      Dimension = 3;
>   typedef itk::Image< PixelType, Dimension >      ImageType;
>   typedef itk::ImageSeriesReader< ImageType >     ReaderType;
>   typedef itk::ImageFileReader< ImageType >       ReaderMHDType;
>   typedef itk::GDCMImageIO                        ImageIOType;
>   typedef itk::GDCMSeriesFileNames                NamesGeneratorType;
>
>   ImageIOType::Pointer gdcmIO = ImageIOType::New();
>   NamesGeneratorType::Pointer namesGenerator = NamesGeneratorType::New();
>
>   namesGenerator->SetInputDirectory( [...DIRECTORY...] );
>
>   const ReaderType::FileNamesContainer & filenames =
>                             namesGenerator->GetInputFileNames();
>
>   ReaderType::Pointer reader = ReaderType::New();
>
>   reader->SetImageIO( gdcmIO );
>   reader->SetFileNames( filenames );
>
>   reader->Update();
>
>   // BEGIN => I'm trying to modify one DICOM Header field <<<
>
>   typedef itk::MetaDataDictionary   DictionaryType;
>
>   ImageType::Pointer inputImage = reader->GetOutput();
>   DictionaryType & dictionary = inputImage->GetMetaDataDictionary();
>
>   std::string entryId("008|103e");
>   std::string value("NEW VALUE");
>
>   itk::EncapsulateMetaData<std::string>( dictionary, entryId, value );
>
>    // END
>
>     [...]
>
>   typedef signed short    OutputPixelType;
>   const unsigned int      OutputDimension = 2;
>
>   typedef itk::Image< OutputPixelType, OutputDimension >    Image2DType;
>
>   typedef itk::ImageSeriesWriter< ImageType, Image2DType >
> SeriesWriterType;
>
>   SeriesWriterType::Pointer seriesWriter = SeriesWriterType::New();
>
>   seriesWriter->SetInput( [...VOLUME...] );
>   seriesWriter->SetImageIO( gdcmIO );
>
>   namesGenerator->SetOutputDirectory( outputDirectory );
>
>   seriesWriter->SetFileNames( namesGenerator->GetOutputFileNames() );
>
>   seriesWriter->SetMetaDataDictionaryArray(
>                         reader->GetMetaDataDictionaryArray() );
>
>   seriesWriter->Update();
>
>
>
>
> I would be very grateful if you could help me.
>
>
> Thank you very much,
>
>
>
> Stéphane
>
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