Orthanc DICOM tags.

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Hello:
How can I have Orthanc explorer to display more DICOM tags. I need explorer to display tags below 0008,0005 because I need to see 0002,0016 and 0002,0017.

Thanks,

Ray

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Hello,

You are referring to tags that are encompassed in the “DICOM file meta information” header, i.e. outside of the DICOM dataset:
http://dicom.nema.org/medical/dicom/current/output/chtml/part10/chapter_7.html#sect_7.1

Those tags are accessible through the REST API of Orthanc by opening the “/instances/{id}/header” URI. For instance using our demo server:

$ curl https://demo.orthanc-server.com/instances/1e033ff9-b3de5641-b08a8e0a-334c0da1-8557d66f/header

Regarding extending Orthanc Explorer, it only display the DICOM dataset. Please carefully read the following FAQ in the Orthanc Book:
https://book.orthanc-server.com/faq/improving-interface.html

Regards,
Sébastien-

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Thank you for your response Sebastien. We will look into Orthanc Explorer 2, but it looks like is it not being developed any more unfortunately.

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Hi Ray,

I take this Idea for my OrthancToolsJS project (new frontend for Orthanc).

I put an issue there (in french sorry) : https://github.com/salimkanoun/Orthanc-Tools-JS/issues/233

I expect to have something release ready around september,

Best regards,

Salim

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Hello Salim:

I think it is very useful in general to have this information available, sometimes it helps in troubleshooting. I am not sure why it has not been implemented so far. I am glad you have adopted the idea and can be helpful for you too. Let me know when ready. By the way I can read and speak French so will look at the post.

Warm Regards,

Ray

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Hi Ray,

We implemented the concatenation of both /header and /tags in our frontend that will show these data, see https://github.com/salimkanoun/Orthanc-Tools-JS/commit/d02e1588eb6add7d8389b6bb12e8a3ddd6320eef

For now I don’t have bandwith to help you install and use OrthancToolsJS, feel free to explore the sources if you have some skills in NodeJS.

I hope I will have a testing beta version in few weeks that I will announce in public,

Best regards,

Salim

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Hello,

FYI, Orthanc 1.9.0 will display the meta-header of DICOM instances in the Orthanc Explorer interface.

Sébastien-