DICOM OB-GYN measurements

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I'm a new in dicom area. I have to create small tool, that convert dicom file to simple pdf report. This report should contains just patient info, some measurement and picture(s). In documentation I found that all information in dicom file stores based on tage, like tag1-value1, tag2-value2. Using external library, I found the way how to pull patient info and pixel data. But I stuck with measurement. I didn't find tags that I need or may be there is a different way how data stores in dicom file.

So my questions are:

  1. Does the dicom file that comes from ultrasound machine contain ob-gyn measurements like HC (Head circumference), AC (Abdominal circumference), BPD (Biparietal diameter) and others?

  2. In what tag/section is this information contained?

Thanks for any help or useful links to read.

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If there is a DICOM Structured Reporting (SR) object coming from the ultrasound machine, the measurements will probably be stored according to the SR Template TID 5000. You should have a look at the DICOM Conformance Statement of the machine to check this out.

You can make the content of such an SR document "human-readable" by a tool like dsrdump.

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The files contain the information if the sonographer entered the measurments.

Look at the documentation about Structured Reporting to see how the data is accessed. (eg - http://www.dclunie.com/pixelmed/DICOMSR.book.pdf)