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DICOM Data Type

This data type works in conjunction with the DICOM Listener / DICOM Sender and the DICOM Attachment Handler to consume and transformer DICOM messages. It has no configurable data type properties, but will automatically convert binary DICOM data to and from an XML format specified by the dcm4che parser library.

Example XML snippet:

<dicom>
    <tag00020000 len="4" tag="00020000" vr="UL">212</tag00020000>
    <tag00020001 len="2" tag="00020001" vr="OB">00\01</tag00020001>
    <tag00020002 len="26" tag="00020002" vr="UI">1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.4</tag00020002>
    <tag00020003 len="60" tag="00020003" vr="UI">1.3.46.670589.11.30.9.1062531302827752870602.13.1.1.1.0.0.1</tag00020003>
    <tag00020010 len="18" tag="00020010" vr="UI">1.2.840.10008.1.2</tag00020010>
    <tag00020012 len="18" tag="00020012" vr="UI">1.3.46.670589.17.1</tag00020012>
    <tag00020013 len="14" tag="00020013" vr="SH">ARCVTS04NOV99</tag00020013>
    <tag00020016 len="14" tag="00020016" vr="AE">VTS_DCM_STORE</tag00020016>
    <tag00080005 len="10" tag="00080005" vr="CS">ISO_IR 100</tag00080005>
    <tag00080008 len="26" tag="00080008" vr="CS">ORIGINAL\PRIMARY\M_SE\M\SE</tag00080008>

Each node in the XML document contains the attribute length, tag code, value representation, and actual value. These can be used or modified within transformers, and the DICOM data type will automatically convert the finished XML to the native DICOM binary format.