Hi all, for those of you who have downloaded my 'Import from Bitmap' utility, you may have noticed that although it imports into the workstation just fine, you can't send it anywhere. This is because it has no value for Sop Class Uid! Why did I omit such an important tag you may be asking yourself? The answer to that question is that I made a 'cut and paste' error ... while reorganizing code, I cut and didn't re- paste. There is also one other important tag that seems to have been missed, along with some less serious type 2 tags that should be present (but empty) in order to be fully compliant.
Anyway, if you have been using the utility and want to fix the images you've imported, here's what you need to do:
1. Open the study from the Dicom Explorer.
2. Select an image and click Tools > Utilities > Locate On Disk.
3. Locate this folder through the My Computer tab.
4. Right-click the folder and choose Dump Files.
5. Add the Sop Class Uid tag (0008, 0016) and enter the value '1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.7' (Secondary Capture Image Storage). Apply to all images.
6. Add the Planar Configuration tag (0028, 0006) and enter the value 0. Apply to all images.
If you want to be strictly compliant, enter the following tags with empty values.
1. Referring Physician's Name (0008, 0090).
2. Study Id (0020, 0010).
3. Patient Orientation (0020, 0020).
Anyway, sorry for the blunder. Hope it doesn't cause anyone any major problems.
Also, I've updated the plugin(s) in the plugin repository, so you can just download it and drop it into your Workstation 1.2 plugins folder on top of the existing ones. Make sure to stop the ShredHostService first, though or you won't be able to copy over the existing files.
-Stewart