Garbage characters received in PatientName

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masato
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Garbage characters received in PatientName

Post by masato » Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:36 am

Hello,

I am using DCMTK for querying and retrieving records from the PacsOne server. Hovever, I am receiving garbage characters in PatientName in CFIND response as follows :

{"John Doe^^^^"}

With CONQUEST server, there is no problem and I get the desired output as :
{"John Doe"}

What may be the problem ?

I am using PacsOne Premium Edition - Trial Version.
Also it is clearly written in its conformance statement document that :
"PacsOne server currently does not support any extended character sets".

Is is due to the above reason or some other reason ?

Moreover for my application, I need wide characters supporting japanese characters.

Thank you

pacsone
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Post by pacsone » Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:24 pm

These are not garbage characters as the '^' char is the delimiter for encoding the 5-component person's names:

Last name^First name^Middlename^Prefix^Suffix

The Conquest server just chooses to hide the delimiter from the output display, while PacsOne Server displays the raw data from the encoded Dicom person's name.

BTW, the encoded John Doe^^^^ Dicom person's name seems to be incorrect if "Doe" is the person's last name and "John" is the first name, as the correct encoding should be Doe^John^^^ instead.

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