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Karthick Rajan
Karthick Rajan

Reputation: 396

How to get series Description from Findscu in dcmtk

Now i am working with the DCMTK 3.6 for communicating between Pacs and client side. Here I am using FINDSCU for getting list from pacs server. I am using following bat file code to get the list of series . 

findscu.exe -aet  ACME1 -aec  ACME_WRITE --study -k 0008,0052=SERIES -k 0020,000D=1.2.840.113619.2.312.4120.11688878.10861.1424141038.480 -k 0020,0010=1854 -k 0008,0060 -k 0020,000E -k 0020,0011 -k 0008,103E -v  192.168.3.19  104 >C:\Users\KARTIK\AppData\Local\Temp\\matlab_dcmstudies_tmpfile.txt

By using above code i can get series number, series UID and Modality . Now my question is

1. how to get series description by using the above code?

I am also tried with send tag code of series description (0008 , 103e) with above code but there is no value is returning from server side.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3082

Answers (1)

lexx9999
lexx9999

Reputation: 746

EDITED: Looking into Dicom Conformance Statement is a good advice.

If PACS is following the standard, it's just an optional attribute. Some PACS just don't support it.

see also http://dicom.nema.org/medical/dicom/current/output/html/part04.html#sect_C.6.1.1 (C.6.1.1.4 Series Level)

Upvotes: 2

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