It is only an illustration, which is simply intended to help the reader better understand the organization of a DICOM Directory stored in a DICOMDIR File. This Annex provides an example of a File content that is based on selected aspects of the example introduced in PS3.3 for the Basic Directory Information Object. I am interested in extracting one series in particular. The scan is in a directory structure defined by a DICOMDIR file. Dear all I have a CT scan with a number of series on it.
The file names of DICOM files on a standard DICOM CD/DVD should be capital alphanumeric up to 8 characters with no suffix. The DICOMDIR file include key attributes from the data on the media such as Patient Name, Patient ID, Study ID, Study Date. DICOM images can be displayed using a program called a ‘DICOM viewer’. DICOM files contain the images along with details about the patient, the scan that generated the image and the characteristics of the image itself. For instance, DICOM-compliant data CDs contain a DICOMDIR at the root level which contains a description and access information for all the studies on the CD. The DICOMDIR file format has been defined to organize the access to off-line DICOM part 10 files.
