DicomBrowser 1.7.5 can create new attributes via GUI but not via .das script

[Dom McI]

I was pleased to see 1.7.5 released with Rick Herrick's comments elsewhere in this forum that it fixed the issue with not being able to create new attributes in 1.7.0*

Unfortunately, while it works through the GUI it doesn't seem to work running a .das DicomEdit script

With the trivial script

0012,0063) := "DB edited this"

the new attribute does not appear, though the undo list contains the instruction and, somewhat weirdly, undo followed by redo does in fact create the new attribute.

One of our major use cases is giving a DicomEdit script to external users so they can deidentify their data before it gets outside their institution, and it would be nice to run this using a non-ancient version of DicomBrowser. Deidentification by deleting tags works but some of the metadata we add fails where the tag doesn't already exist.

Tested versions: 1.7.5 running on Ubuntu and Windows 10

[Dom McI]

Example should of course be

(0012,0063) := "DB edited this"

[Herrick, Rick]

Hi Dom,

 

DicomBrowser actually adds the attribute “manually”, i.e. in its own code rather than through the version of DicomEdit packaged with the app. That’s an older version of DicomEdit (3.0.2), which doesn’t support inserting new attributes. DicomEdit 4 and 6 (which are part of XNAT 1.7.x) do support inserting new attributes, but due to issues with how DicomBrowser itself is built and the differences between DE3 and later versions we haven’t been able to upgrade DicomBrowser to work with those. We’d like to update that application, but haven’t had any resources available to touch it in quite some time.

 

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Rick Herrick

Sr. Programmer/Analyst

Neuroinformatics Research Group

Washington University School of Medicine

Phone: +1 (314) 273-1645

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