Is there any function for reading enhanced DICOM files

Hi,

Do any one know if there are any support for reading enhanced DICOM files for MRI and MRS data?

I have tried the dicominfo function and I get the measurement data but I lack some tags, e.g. echo time which should be in tag 0018 0081. If I read the data in other applications such as ImageJ I get the echo time in tag 0018 0081 so I know that is was exported.

I'm using matlab R2014a (8.3.0.532) 64-bit maci64

The data were acquired on philips Achieva and Ingenia systems.

/ Anders

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

Anders, often time the these additional tags will be hidden in a structure under one of the preceding parent tags.

Take a look through the info structure to see if you can find them.

info = dicominfo('whatever.dcm')
openvar info

If that is not the case, then you might need to use your own dictionary.

http://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2014a/images/ref/dicomdict.html

[Anders]

Thanks Sean.

The Echo time was stored in the structure: info.PerFrameFunctionalGroupsSequence.Item_1.MREchoSequence.Item_1

for the first frame.

/ Anders