Problem with anonymization -- tag label mismatch

[jihane hajj]

Hello, I am trying to anonymize dicom files, and the process fails on 3 tags whose labels don't match exactly what pydicom expects.

Specifically, my dicom file contains the following labels:

PatientTelephoneNumber

PhysicianOfRecord

OperatorName

instead of the expected labels:

PatientTelephoneNumbers

PhysiciansOfRecord

OperatorsName

How could I go around this problem?

Thank you very much for your help,

Jihane

[Marcel Daamen]

Hi Jihane,

instead of addressing the tags via label name, I would simply modify them by their hex value.

Depending on whether you want to delete them, only zero out or replace with a dummy string, this would look like in these examples.

del Image[0x0010, 0x2154]                   # delete tag Patient's Telephone Number

Image[0x0008, 0x1048].value=''"          # zero out Physician of Record

Image[0x0008, 0x1070].value = 'XXXX^XXXX'     # replace Operator's Name with non-zero string

Best wishes,

Marcel

[jihane hajj]

Thank you very much, Marcel.

This is very helpful.

Best,

Jihane

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