DICOM Header's editing, DICOM to DICOM convertion

Sante DICOM Editor and Sante DICOM Viewer PRO allow you to modify the header's information of a DICOM file. You can modify any field of the header, even the Transfer Syntax UID (0002, 0010). The program creates a valid DICOM file with new Transfer Syntax UID. A change of the Transfer Syntax UID field or a change of the image's characteristics (e.g. Bits Allocated), allows you to perform easily a DICOM-to-DICOM conversion. Also you can insert, delete, or modify a tag with sequence VR (Value representation).



Fields appearing with red text color and gray background are the ones that the user cannot modify or delete. Usually they are Group Length fields which the program calculates automatically. Fields appearing with blue text color are the ones that the user cannot delete but can modify. Usually there are image information (width, height, color depth) which must be present on file's header.

On the top of the dialog there is the Content tab control that allows you to select the group of information you want to see (all, patient information, study information, physician information or image details).

To modify a field
Select the field's row from the field list and press the Edit Tag button to modify the field. You can also double click on field's row. The proper dialog box appears that allows you to input the value of the field.
To delete a field
Select the field's row from the field list and press the Delete Tag button to delete the field.
To insert a new field
Press the Insert Tag button and insert a new field.

You can type the Tag's Group (Tag1) and Element (Tag2) or you can select them from a list. After insertion the proper dialog box appears that allows you to input the value of the new field.

To insert or modify a sequence (Value Representation = SQ)
The program allows you to process a sequence as any other type of field. When you insert or select for editing a sequence the proper dialog box is appeared:

On the top of this dialog, there are the block manipulation controls. These controls allow you to insert, delete or view a block which contains typical header's fields. When you insert a new block the program asks you about the size type of the new block (implicit or explicit size). It is safe to select any of these two size types. In any block you can insert, delete or modify any field.

OK button
Accepts the header's modifications, and closes this dialog box.

Cancel button
Closes this dialog box without recording any changes.

Hide zero length fields checkbox
Use this checkbox to show or hide tags which have no information, in order to minimize the length of the list.

Hide private fields checkbox
Use this checkbox to show or hide tags which belong to the machine vendor, in order to minimize the length of the list. These tags are not described in the DICOM standard and there is no "Tag Name" (or Description) for these, unless the user has loaded an external dictionary.

Export to text file button
Press this button to save the header information to a text file. The program always saves the whole header regardless of the Content tab current selection. The text file can be opened with the notepad.


Help button
Displays a help topic about header's editing.