OFFIS DICOM - dcmdump v3.6.0 - (0002,0010) UID Transfer Syntax

Question

I am using the OFFIS DICOM dcmdump tool to extract information from a DICOM image: http://support.dcmtk.org/docs/dcmdump.html

I use DICOM dcmdump.exe -M -L +Qnfor dcmdump.exe -M -L +Qninformation.

The output looks like

Dicom-file-format

# Dicom-Meta-Information-Header
# Used TransferSyntax: Little Endian Explicit
(0002,0000) UL 164                                      #   4, 1 FileMetaInformationGroupLength
(0002,0001) OB 00\01                                    #   2, 1 FileMetaInformationVersion
(0002,0002) UI =DigitalXRayImageStorageForPresentation  #  28, 1 MediaStorageSOPClassUID
(0002,0003) UI [1.2.826.0.1.3680043.2.876.8598.1.4.0.20160428091911.2.2] #  56, 1 MediaStorageSOPInstanceUID
(0002,0010) UI =JPEGLSLossless                          #  22, 1 TransferSyntaxUID
(0002,0012) UI [1.2.276.0.64]                           #  12, 1 ImplementationClassUID

Why did dcmdump convert (0002,0010) to a value JPEGLSLosslessinstead 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.80?

Is there a switch to do this?

Answer 1

dcmdump does this because by default it translates known UIDs into human-readable values.

The parameter you are looking to change this behavior is: -Un (--no-uid-names)