We have a Acteon digital Xray device which is connected to a PC. We view the Xrays using the Acteon Sopro software on the PC. The device generates .dcm files, but the Sopro software does not transmit the files to our Orthanc server. When I try and import any of these files into Orthanc, it fails and the log says the files are missing the StudyInstanceUID and SeriesInstanceUID. I could edit the .dcm files and add these tags, but I am wary of manually assigning these unique IDs. Suggestions? Thanks.
Indeed if StudyInstanceUID and SeriesInstanceUID are missing, Orthanc will consider them as invalid (and many other DICOM systems too)
You should be able to generate new IDs safely with dcmodify (http://support.dcmtk.org/docs/dcmodify.html)
Hello,
The tags “StudyInstanceUID” and “SeriesInstanceUID” are mandatory and cannot be empty, according to the DICOM standard (tags of type 1 in Digital X-Ray Image IOD [1]).
As a consequence, your imaging modality is badly configured. Please get in touch with your paying support by Acteon.
Regards,
Sébastien-
[1] http://dicom.nema.org/medical/dicom/current/output/html/part03.html#sect_A.26