What product/code are you talking about with the findSCP? The ImageServer or Workstation? Or are you just talking about the DICOM library in general?

We do have this operational in the ImageServer and the Workstation. As you mention, the specific character set tag must be set first in a dataset before encoding other extended character values.

Steve

We are currently using the dicom library which is has a copyright of 2006-2008

Have there been any changes to the dicom base files which may have fixed the extended characters recently? I see that there was a ticket #3275 from last year which deals with this. Do you know what that file set was? I may be able to selectivly upgrade those files if it was fixed.

Thank you so much.

Kelly

UPDATE:

After debugging into the code I see it was setting the specificCharacterSet as a tag on the dataset and not as a property of the dataset.

After fixing this, it is correct on our side.

Thank you for your response Steve! Happy Holidays.

Kelly,

I took a look at the changeset, and the commit for #3275 was done about a year ago, near the tail end of our 1.3 development cycle. The commit was done in a branch, and then merged into our trunk towards the end of 2008. If you used the "tag" for the 1.3 release as your source of code, then you'd have the fix.

As for what changed in the set, in DicomAttributeCollection, the constructor had these additions:

internal DicomAttributeCollection(DicomAttributeCollection source, bool copyBinary)
{
(added) _startTag = source.StartTagValue;
(added) _endTag = source.EndTagValue;
(added) _specificCharacterSet = source.SpecificCharacterSet;

foreach (DicomAttribute attrib in source)

and in FindScu, in the SendFindRequest, some code that copied the request message was replaced with this line of code:

DicomMessage dicomMessage = new DicomMessage(new DicomAttributeCollection(),_requestAttributeCollection.Copy());

Otherwise, I don't think there's been any other changes that would fix this. Basically, I believe we had this working since our 1.3 release of the viewer & server...

Steve