[MINC-users] dcm2mnc error regarding PatientAge

[Robert D. Vincent]

Hi,

I'll relax the test and make it a warning. But the AS VR does not permit a
field value of 0000.

    -bert

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Daniel Marchand <daniel at biospective.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble converting a dicom file including the line:
> (0010,1010) AS [0000]                                   #   4, 1 PatientAge
>
> which throws the error:
> Age units (0000) unknown
>
> It seems that the cause of the error is
> inside of conversion/dcm2mnc/minc_file.c :
>
>     if (strlen(general_info->patient.age) > 0) {
>         string_t temp;
>         int i;
>         double age;
>
>         strncpy(temp, general_info->patient.age, STRING_T_LEN - 1);
>         while (temp[i] != 0 && !isdigit(temp[i]))
>           i++;
>         if (temp[i] == 0) {
>           fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: Age was not numeric!!\n");
>           exit(-1);
>         }
>         age = atof(&temp[i]);
>         while (temp[i] != 0 && isdigit(temp[i]))
>           i++;
>         if (temp[i] == 'M')     /* age is in months */
>           age /= 12.0;
>         else if (temp[i] == 'W')   /* age is in weeks */
>           age /= 52.0;
>         else if (temp[i] == 'D')   /* age is in days */
>           age /= 365.0;
>         else if (temp[i] != 'Y') { /* age is in years */
>           fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: Age units (%s) unknown.\n", temp);
>           exit(-1);
>         }
>         miattputdbl(mincid, varid, MIage, age);
>
> I would appear that perhaps a new option could be added where
> dcm2mnc doesn't crash if the age is written as [0000]?
>
> Best,
>
> Daniel
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