-// gdcmDictEntry.h
-//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+/*=========================================================================
+
+ Program: gdcm
+ Module: $RCSfile: gdcmDictEntry.h,v $
+ Language: C++
+ Date: $Date: 2004/06/20 18:08:47 $
+ Version: $Revision: 1.14 $
+
+ Copyright (c) CREATIS (Centre de Recherche et d'Applications en Traitement de
+ l'Image). All rights reserved. See Doc/License.txt or
+ http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/Public/Gdcm/License.htm for details.
+
+ This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
+ the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
+ PURPOSE. See the above copyright notices for more information.
+
+=========================================================================*/
+
#ifndef GDCMDICTENTRY_H
#define GDCMDICTENTRY_H
inline std::string GetKey(void) { return key; }
private:
- // FIXME : were are the group and element used except from building up
+ // FIXME : where are the group and element used except from building up
// a TagKey. If the answer is nowhere then there is no need
// to store the group and element independently.
+ //
+ // --> EVERYWHERE ! The alternate question would be :
+ // What's TagKey used for ?
+
+ /// DicomGroup number
guint16 group; // e.g. 0x0010
+ /// DicomElement number
guint16 element; // e.g. 0x0103
- std::string vr; // Value Representation i.e. some clue about the nature
- // of the data represented e.g. "FD" short for
- // "Floating Point Double"
- // CLEANME: find the official dicom name for this field !
- std::string fourth; // Fourth field containing some semantics.
- //(Group Name abbr.)
- std::string name; // e.g. "Patient_Name"
- TagKey key; // Redundant with (group, element) but we add it
- // on efficiency purposes.
+ /**
+ * \ingroup gdcmDictEntry
+ * \brief Value Representation i.e. some clue about the nature
+ * of the data represented
+ * e.g. "FD" short for "Floating Point Double"
+ */
+ std::string vr;
+
+ /**
+ * \brief AVOID using the following fourth field at all costs.
+ *
+ * They are at leat two good reasons for NOT using fourth:
+ * - the main reason is that it is NOT part of the 'official'
+ * Dicom Dictionnary.
+ * - a second reason is that it is not defined for all the groups.
+ * .
+ * Still it provides some semantics as group name abbreviation that
+ * can prove of some help when organizing things in an interface.
+ * For the time being we keep it in gdcm but it migth be removed in
+ * future releases it proves to be source of confusion.
+ * Here is a small dictionary we encountered in "nature":
+ * - CMD Command
+ * - META Meta Information
+ * - DIR Directory
+ * - ID ???
+ * - PAT Patient
+ * - ACQ Acquisition
+ * - REL Related
+ * - IMG Image
+ * - SDY Study
+ * - VIS Visit
+ * - WAV Waveform
+ * - PRC ???
+ * - DEV Device
+ * - NMI Nuclear Medicine
+ * - MED ???
+ * - BFS Basic Film Session
+ * - BFB Basic Film Box
+ * - BIB Basic Image Box
+ * - BAB
+ * - IOB
+ * - PJ
+ * - PRINTER
+ * - RT Radio Therapy
+ * - DVH
+ * - SSET
+ * - RES Results
+ * - CRV Curve
+ * - OLY Overlays
+ * - PXL Pixels
+ * - DL Delimiters
+ * .
+ *
+ * Other usefull abreviations used for Radiographic view associated with
+ * Patient Position (0018,5100):
+ * - AP = Anterior/Posterior
+ * - PA = Posterior/Anterior
+ * - LL = Left Lateral
+ * - RL = Right Lateral
+ * - RLD = Right Lateral Decubitus
+ * - LLD = Left Lateral Decubitus
+ * - RLO = Right Lateral Oblique
+ * - LLO = Left Lateral Oblique
+ * .
+ */
+ std::string fourth;
+
+ /// e.g. "Patient's Name"
+ std::string name;
+ /// Redundant with (group, element) but we add it on efficiency purposes.
+ TagKey key;
+
// DCMTK has many fields for handling a DictEntry (see below). What are the
// relevant ones for gdcmlib ?
// struct DBI_SimpleEntry {