multi language Fields

[yonatan....@gmail.com]

Hello,
I'm working on migration from V1.036 to V3.
On V1 we used AddLanguagePN to add multi language PN. I'm trying to understand hot to do so now(for example Japanese and English or Chinese and English) can some one give me an example?
Thanks,
Yonatan

[Anders Gustafsson Cureos AB]

Hi Yonatan!

Please provide some example code showing what you did with 1.0.x.

Regards,

Anders @ Cureos

[Yonatan sy]

            dataset.AddLanguagePN(DicomTag.ReferringPhysicianName,

                new MultiLangPersonName

                {

                    Names = new string[] { "Wolfgang - D.R. ¼Éß", "ｲｶﾞﾞｼﾒ" },

                    Encodings = new Encoding[] { ir100, ir13 }

                });

[Anders Gustafsson Cureos AB]

As far as I can tell from looking at old commits, AddLanguagePN was not part of the DicomDataset API in 1.0.36, nor has MultiLangPersonName ever been a part of fo-dicom's API in 1.0.36 or later versions.

Either you are using a non-official build of fo-dicom, or you are using some extension methods which have been provided by external authors. Please check the origins of the older fo-dicom class library you have used.

Regards,

Anders

[Yonatan sy]

I'm trying to add a multi-language patient name tag, I need to add Chinese and English string. could you please post an example?

[Anders Gustafsson Cureos AB]

See this response to a recent Github issue. If you use UTF-8 character set (ISO_IR 192), you should realistically be able to combine e.g. Chinese and English.

Regards,

Anders @ Cureos

[Yonatan sy]

I meant doing something like Last^First^Middle=AlternateLast^AlternateFirst^AlternateMiddle

[Anders Gustafsson Cureos AB]

I have never before come across this kind of convention. Can you please provide a link to the DICOM Standard where this setup is described in more detail?

[Yonatan sy]

On part 5 of the standard in clause 6.2 there is a definition to PN fields using the  "=" character.

At the same document at Appendix J in J3 clause you may find this example.

[Anders Gustafsson Cureos AB]

Thanks for the info.

Currently there is no dedicated support for this particular scenario, but I don't see why you should not be able to write such a text string directly e.g. to the Patient's Name. Like this:

dataset.AddOrUpdate(DicomTag.SpecificCharacterSet, "ISO_IR 192");

dataset.AddOrUpdate(DicomTag.PatientName, "Wang^XiaoDong=王^小東=​");

Please try it and report if you run into any issues with this approach.

Regards,

Anders

[Yonatan sy]

I've already tried it and it works.