Sources for dicom public dictionaries: * the official source is the part 6 of the dicom standard (see http://www.dclunie.com/dicom-status/status.html#BaseStandard2001). * http://www.fpimage.com/Manuals/Imp/dicomdic.html an html group based presentation. * ftp://rsbweb.nih.gov/pub/nih-image/documents/dicom-dict.txt a C syntax oriented version provided by NIH (Jim Nash) * http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/afni/AFNI_Dist/afni_src.tgz extract mri_dicom_hdr.c (tar zxvf afni_src.tgz afni_src/mri_dicom_hdr.c) and look for the definitions of CMD_dictionary, META_dictionary, ID_dictionary, PAT_dictionary...