Re:Dicom File Format Basics
by thfuran on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @09:41AM
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For certain definitions of "just fine". Some manufacturers will use a private tag to hold the same information that's meant to be in a standard tag—and even sometimes put different values in the two, with the private tag being correct.
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> Some manufacturers will use a private tag to hold the same information that's meant to be in a standard tag...
Agree! Also some applications have "special" features that rely on data stored in private tags which, of course, you don't have any idea how to use.