The DICOM Standard Part 11 defines 'Media Storage Application Profiles'. Inside SE001 create the DICOM files and name them IM000001, IM000002.Inside ST001 create a directory SE001 for every series.Inside PA001 create a directory ST001 for every study.Create a directory PA001 for every patient.Before calling it, make sure your files are named properly. This method scans a directory for DICOM files and writes a DICOMDIR file in its root. So for example to go over all the patients in the media you use the getPatientIterator method and get back an object iterator where each DCXOBJ in it is one DICOMDIR patient record. The DCXDICOMDIR class has methods to search and iterate over the different records within the DICOMDIR file. This prolog is made to explain the very thin API of the DICOMDIR Implementation class DCXDICOMDIR. When I take such decisions its because I assume that RZDCX users want to focus on the their strengths and count on RZDCX to do the right thing DICOM-wise.

Many times ease of use considerations supersede complete options and flexibility because I take the decision to implement the DICOM internals in a certain way that will be most integrative and still correct. With RZDCX I try to make things easier by providing the very basic API to carry out the task. Because search actions on CD's are much slower then on a hard drive, using the DICOMDIR should theoretically shorten the time required to find and display to the user the information on the media. Its a directory record with information about DICOM files on the media. The DICOMDIR is exactly what it names suggests. All we need to do then is to read the DICOMDIR file, find the record in it with our patient's ID and get from there the references to the DICOM files that we are looking for on the CD. Doable but slow, specially with slow media like CD, But, when this CD is made according to the standard, there's a better way. If we have no more information then that, we need to open the CD, look at every file on it and check if its a DICOM file, read it, figure out what's in it and decide if this is what we are looking for.

Let's say we got a CD from someone that tells us there's DICOM files on this CD with the information of the patient we are looking for.

How to open dicomdir file