mriconvert: File/Patient Information - include Patient Gender

[Roman Fleysher]

Dear Michael,
Dear All,

I am glad you like the tool. I like it too and I am not a developer, just a user.

However, I argued before and I argue  again and again, that merging mriconvert with other tools is a bad idea. There are many DICOM tags that may need to be extracted for data processing which depend on the type of data and the processing algorithm. It is therefore unreasonable and in fact dangerous for mriconvert to include such tags. Tag interpretation may depend on vendor and sequence. Instead, dcmtk can be used to extract such tags. The fact that a text file is prepared already creates a dangerous precedent for infinitely expanding its content making mriconvert software more difficult to maintain and update. It may even necessitate inclusion of new switched and manuals. Keep it simple and focused. Use mriconvert for conversion to NIFTI, use something else to get something else.

Roman

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From: mriconvert-bounces at lists.uoregon.edu [mriconvert-bounces at lists.uoregon.edu] on behalf of Scheel, Michael [Michael.Scheel at charite.de]
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 11:29 AM
To: mriconvert at lists.uoregon.edu
Subject: mriconvert: File/Patient Information - include Patient Gender

Dear all,

i am a big fan of mriconvert partly because of the nice structured Text-File with all meta information it creates during the DCM conversion.
Is there a way to adapt this? I need PatientSex to be displayed in that information text file.
PatientsSex | 0010,0040

Any suggestions on how to achieve this?

Thanks and many regards, Michael
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