Unrestricted VR example

[Mathieu Malaterre]

As a follow up to my earlier post, here is an example of file with unrestricted Value Representation(s):

http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/thingies/UnrestrictedVRExample.dcm

Since the standard currently does not restrict Value Representation to have any particular `byte` value all parsers should be able to parse this file as if the VRs were UN.

Enjoy.

[David Clunie]

As we discussed by email, DICOM does restrict the VR to be bytes from the default character set as you noted:

http://dicom.nema.org/medical/dicom/current/output/chtml/part05/chapter_7.html#para_8c6abdc8-2439-4aae-bdd0-98f7c35fd830

and that is very constrained (to G0 plus a few control characters) as described in Annex E:

http://dicom.nema.org/medical/dicom/current/output/chtml/part05/chapter_E.html

It is unlikely that DICOM will in future define VRs containing control characters :)

David

[Mathieu Malaterre]

I've fixed my sample DataSet in-place to only contains character from G0 (no control character to avoid confusion).

Cheers