[Help needed] - How a SCP can return a .dcm file data?

[victornassif]

Hi! I'm starting with pynetdicom (hopefully, this is a very basic question), but I couldn't find anything about it in the documentation.

I was already able to set up an SCP server and handle C-FIND events from a PACS. Now, I'm trying to figure out how to add all the data the PACS needs to my Dataset. Is it a manual process? Should I manually add all the properties I have available in my .dcm file? Or do we have something like a "return file"?

Please let me know if this is too abstract! Thanks for the attention.

[victornassif]

actually I found a way to do it dinamically:

    identifier = Dataset()
    for tag in instance.keys():
        element = instance.get(tag)
        try:
            if not element.is_private:
                identifier.add_new(element.tag, element.VR,element.value)
        except Exception as e:
            print(e)

[scaramallion]

You can do it this way, but it's not going to be very efficient. That might be OK for you, depending on how many instances you're expecting to manage.

If you have a lot of instances you might consider switching to storing the relevant dataset values in a database instead.

[victornassif]

Thank you for the suggestion! Do you have a "base" about what would be the most used dataset values/more relevant for most cases?

[scaramallion]

You need to check the DICOM Standard. There are different required query keys you must support for a given query level/root (see here for example).