basic DICOM file operations

Example.cs

using Dicom;
using Dicom.Data;

namespace Dicom.Examples {
	static void Main() {
		Debug.InitializeConsoleDebugLogger();

		// register compression codecs
		DicomCodec.RegisterCodecs();
		DicomCodec.RegisterExternalCodecs(".", "Dicom.Codec.*.dll");

		// load DICOM tag dictionaries
		if (File.Exists("dicom.dic"))
			DcmDictionary.ImportDictionary("dicom.dic");
		else
			DcmDictionary.LoadInternalDictionary();

		if (File.Exists("private.dic"))
			DcmDictionary.ImportDictionary("private.dic");

		// load DICOM file
		DicomFileFormat ff = new DicomFileFormat();
		ff.Load(@"test.dcm", DicomReadOptions.AllowSeekingForContext);

		// print dataset to log
		Debug.Log.Info(ff.Dataset.Dump());

		// get study instance uid
		string studyuid = ff.Dataset.GetString(DicomTags.StudyInstanceUID, null);

		// print studyuid to log
		Debug.Log.Info("Study UID: {0}", studyuid);

		// set patient id
		ff.Dataset.SetString(DicomTags.PatientID, "12345");

		// lossless compress image
		ff.ChangeTransferSytnax(DicomTransferSyntax.JPEGProcess14SV1, null);

		// save DICOM file
		ff.Save(@"out.dcm", DicomWriteOptions.Default);
	}
}