IDLffDicomEx::GetDescription

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The IDLffDicomEx::GetDescription function method returns the description associated with a public DICOM attribute specified by a standard DICOM attribute tag.

Syntax

Result = Obj->[IDLffDicomEx::]GetDescription(DicomTag )

Return Value

Returns a string containing the attribute description.

Arguments

DicomTag

A string that identifies the group and element of a DICOM attribute in the form 'XXXX,XXXX'. The DicomTag argument must reference a public tag. See DICOM Attributes for a list of tags.

Keywords

None

Example

The following example returns the description of Photometric Interpretation attribute from a DICOM file in the examples\data directory. See PHOTOMETRIC_INTERPRETATION for more information on this attribute.

PRO read_attrdescription_doc 
 
; Select a DICOM file to examine. 
sFile = DIALOG_PICKFILE( $ 
    PATH=FILEPATH('',SUBDIRECTORY=['examples','data']), $ 
    TITLE='Select DICOM Patient File', FILTER='*.dcm', $ 
    GET_PATH=path) 
 
; Open the selected file in read-only mode. 
 oImg = OBJ_NEW('IDLffDicomEx', sfile) 
     
; Return the photometric interpretation description.  
result = oImg->GetDescription('0028,0004') 
 
Print, 'Result is ', result 
 
END 

For the mr_knee.dcm file, the following appears in the Output Log window:

Result is Photometric Interpretation 

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