+/**
+ * \brief removes an already existing Dicom Dictionary Entry,
+ * identified by its group,element number
+ * @param group Dicom group number of the Dicom Element
+ * @param elem Dicom element number of the Dicom Element
+ * @return false if Dicom Dictionary Entry doesn't exist
+ */
+bool Dict::RemoveEntry(uint16_t group, uint16_t elem)
+{
+ return RemoveEntry(DictEntry::TranslateToKey(group, elem));
+}
+
+/**
+ * \brief Remove all Dicom Dictionary Entries
+ */
+void Dict::ClearEntry()
+{
+ // we assume all the pointed DictEntries are already cleaned-up
+ // when we clean KeyHt.
+ TagKeyHT::const_iterator it;
+
+ for(it = KeyHt.begin();it!=KeyHt.end();++it)
+ it->second->Unregister(); // delete the entry
+ KeyHt.clear(); // remove all the entries from HTable
+
+}
+
+/**
+ * \brief Get the dictionary entry identified by a given tag ("group|element")
+ * @param key tag of the searched entry
+ * @return the corresponding dictionary entry when existing, NULL otherwise
+ */
+DictEntry *Dict::GetEntry(TagKey const &key)
+{
+ TagKeyHT::iterator it = KeyHt.find(key);
+ if ( it == KeyHt.end() )
+ {
+ return 0;
+ }
+ return it->second;
+}
+/**
+ * \brief Get the dictionary entry identified by its "group" and "element")
+ * @param group Group number of the searched entry.
+ * @param elem Element number of the searched entry.
+ * @return the corresponding dictionary entry when existing, NULL otherwise
+ */
+DictEntry *Dict::GetEntry(uint16_t group, uint16_t elem)
+{
+ TagKey key = DictEntry::TranslateToKey(group, elem);
+ TagKeyHT::iterator it = KeyHt.find(key);
+ if ( it == KeyHt.end() )
+ {
+ return 0;
+ }
+ return it->second;
+}