Adding Private Tags to Tag Dictionary Using Aspose.Medical

Adding Private Tags to Tag Dictionary Using Aspose.Medical

In order to ensure that tag descriptions and value representations are shown correctly, it is necessary to load a private tags file for the purpose of adding private tags to the default Tag Dictionary in Aspose.Medical.

Please use the following code snippet to load private tags from XML file:

// Create a DICOM Tag for the element
const string tagsXml = "path\to\custom-tag-dictionary.xml";

Aspose.Medical.Dicom.Tags.TagDictionary.Default.Load(tagsXml);

XML file must have the following structure:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<dictionaries>
  <dictionary creator="CUSTOM PRIVATE CREATOR">
    <tag group="3011" element="xx00" vr="SL" vm="1">Private tag # 1-1 (description)</tag>
    <tag group="3011" element="xx01" vr="FD" vm="2">Private tag # 1-2 (description)</tag>
    <tag group="3011" element="xx02" vr="DS" vm="1-n">Private tag #N (description)</tag>
  </dictionary>
  <dictionary creator="CUSTOM PRIVATE CREATOR #2">
    <tag group="4001" element="xx00" vr="FD" vm="2-7">Private tag # 2-1</tag>
  </dictionary>
</dictionaries>