Directory structure: it may contain one to eight components (sub directory) and each component should be limited to 16 characters max from the subset of the G0 repertoireĪlso make sure to have the unique ID for each level of DICOM hierarchical model (Patient ID, Study Instance UID, Series Instance UID and SOP Instance UID).upper case A-Z and 0 to 1 plus the “_” (underscore)) Filename should be limited to 8 characters and no extension.DICOMDIR location should be at the root directory.Media Storage SOP Instance UID (0002,0003)įollow the file naming and folder structure convention as defined in the standard.Using option +A new entries are only appended to the DICOMDIR. The dcmmkdir utility also allows to append new entries to and to update existing entries in a DICOMDIR file. A DICOMDIR file will only be constructed if all files have passed initial tests. Media Storage SOP Class UID (0002,0002) Files missing required attributes will be rejected (the +I option can relax this behaviour).File Meta Information Version (0002,0001).File Meta Information Group Length (0002,0000).This should include a 128 byte File Preamble, followed by a 4 byte DICOM prefix 'DICM', followed by the File Meta Elements such as follows: If you are creating part 10 compliant DICOM Media, you should prepare the individual DICOM file to match the part 10 requirement.

Create a more detailed dicomdir file