study instance uid changes when using save_as

[Dan]

Hi

Disclaimer - I'm pretty new to dealing with DICOM data and am just getting familiar with the various tags.

I am involved in a project building an application for analysing medical imaging data (image processing) which is received directly from a hospital PACS. We use pydicom (thank you!) for storing DICOM files when received (we also use pynetdicom to handle receiving - thanks for that too!).

A series is received one file at a time and is stored using the file `SOPInstanceUID` as the filename. I have a test data set that I am working from that contains 176 images in the series. When using

Dataset().save_as()

to save each file in the series with the `SOPInstanceUID` I end up with files where the `StudyInstanceUID` no longer matches that in the original file and is different for each file in the series.

Can somebody explain what is going here please? Where did I go wrong?

Many thanks for your help in advance!

Cheers,

Dan.

[Darcy Mason]

Hi Dan,

Pydicom should never change the StudyInstanceUID unless it is done in user code.  Perhaps a pynetdicom example code was used that modified the StudyInstanceUID?  I'd suggest a global search through your code used for any occurrence of "StudyInstanceUID" to make sure.  

Also, do the new values start with the pydicom root UID '1.2.826.0.1.3680043.8.498.'?

[Daniel Matthews]

Hi Darcy

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. It was of course something in our code... I wouldn't have found it without your hint though so thank you!

Cheers,

Dan.

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