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WARNING DIAGNOSTIC PURPOSES

DO NOT USE THE GENERATED FILES FOR DIAGNOSTIC PURPOSES.

The DICOM files you are going to generate are based on the template file you have selected. Each template file is based on the DICOM dump (see DICOM load plugin) of a “real world” DICOM file: it contains scanner related meta data that were correct for the original study. However, when you use the template to save arbitrary other image data, you create a DICOM file that pretends to originate from the chosen scanner but, of course, does not and the scanner related data and/or other meta data of the header will, in all likelihood, not be correct any more. See below for a list of keywords and how VINCI replaces them. As the DICOM files generated by VINCI are technically consistent and syntactically correct, there is a real danger that “fake” meta data is taken literally.

LEGAL MATTER

IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY THAT NOBODY, NO DEVICE OR SOFTWARE RELIES ON META-DATA FROM THESE TEMPLATE-GENERATED DICOM FILES.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS-IS, WITHOUT ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTY. SPECIFICALLY, NEITHER THE MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH WITH KLAUS-JOACHIM-ZÜLCH-LABORATORIES OF THE MAX-PLANCK-SOCIETY AND THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE, NOR THE AUTHORS, NOR THE CONTRIBUTORS WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE SOFTWARE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, OR THAT THE OPERATION OF THE SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT DEFECTS IN THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER THE MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH WITH KLAUS-JOACHIM-ZÜLCH-LABORATORIES OF THE MAX-PLANCK-SOCIETY AND THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE, NOR THE AUTHORS, NOR THE CONTRIBUTORS SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE USE OF THE SOFTWARE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY LOST PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF PROGRAMS OR OTHER DATA ON YOUR INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM.

Keywords and Replacements

Keywords Replacements
SOPINSTANCEUID VINCIUID.file_index
IMPLEMENTATIONVERSIONNAME Vinci version
STUDYDATE study date (from GUI, prefilled with image meta data)
STUDYTIME study time (from GUI, prefilled with image meta data)
SERIESDATE series date
SERIESTIME series time
ACQUISITIONDATE acquisition date
ACQUISITIONTIME acquisition time
CONTENTDATE content date
STUDYDESCRIPTION study description (from GUI, prefilled with image meta data)
SERIESDESCRIPTION series description
PROTOCOLNAME protocol name
PATIENTNAME patient name (from GUI, prefilled with image meta data)
PATIENTID patient ID (from GUI, prefilled with image meta data)
PATIENTDOB patient day of birth (from GUI, prefilled with image meta data)
PATIENTSEX patient sex
PATIENTAGE patient age
PATIENTWEIGHT patient weight
SLICETHICKNESS pixel_size_z
STUDYINSTANCEUID UID.Time.4712+file_offset
SERIESINSTANCEUID UID.Time.4713+file_offset
STUDYID study ID (from GUI, prefilled with image meta data)
SERIESNUMBER file_offset
ACQUISITIONNUMBER file_offset
INSTANCENUMBER slice_number+1
IMAGEPOSITIONPATIENT image position patient
IMAGEORIENTATIONPATIENT image orientation patient
FRAMEOFREFERENCEUID UID.Time.4714+file_offset
SLICELOCATION slice location
ROWS image dim_y
COLUMNS image dim_x
PIXELSPACING pixel_sizey_size__x\\pixel
WINDOWCENTER center of float value range
WINDOWWIDTH float value range
RESCALEINTERCEPT minimum float value
RESCALESLOPE float range/(2^bitsStored-1), using “bitsStored” of the template
RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL radio pharmaceutical
DOSAGESTARTTIME radio pharmaceutical start time
DOSAGE_BQ radio pharmaceutical total dose
HALFLIFE_SECS radio pharmaceutical half life
FRACTION radio pharmaceutical branching factor
NUMBEROFSLICES dim_z
UNITS units
PIXELDATAGROUPLENGTH dim_x*dim_y+12
=MEMORYBASED insert actual float values

Version: Vinci 4.24.0

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