[Dcmlib] Re: gdcm::IsReadable()

[Mathieu Malaterre]

> Loic Boussel gave me his 'Dicom Hall of Shame' (Musée des horreurs' 
> Dicom, in French), I gave him ours.
> Since DicomWorks is (still now) much more 'popular' than gdcm is  
> -Medical Doctors download it, not computer guys-, Loic has got much more 
> 'bloody images' than we do.
> 
> Most of DicomWorks hanger images works with gdcm ( compression problems 
> are solved; Thx Mathieu  !).

Always glad to help :)
JPEG-LS and MPEG2 are still in the pipeline... and not so much work on 
right now :(

> But some mandatory Tags (such as Pixel Representation, Sample Per 
> Pixels, Hight Bit, etc) are missing.
> Now gdcmFile::IsReadable() doesn't say 'false' is *only one* is missing.
> (The further heuristics try to manage with them).

Just a quick note, it looks to me that now IsReadable() can return true 
as long as -let say- b0028_0103 is true, are you sure this is enough ?

> And there is no more DicomWorks compatible image that hang gdcm.
> ;-)

GDCM ROCKS DA WORLD !

Mathieu
Ps: Does this means there are still some DicomWorks *non*-compatible 
that hang gdcm ?