I am writing a DICOM viewer program, now my program displays three info abt DICOM..i want to make my program to display other informations like patient name and slice thickness..understanding dicom is really hard..if one any working with DICOM plz help me.
This program dont have errors..but i need some advice to display other stuffs.

#include <stdio.h>   
#include <string.h>   
#include <math.h>    
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

char    infile[256], outfile[256];                    
  int     mszx, mszy, bit_allocated;                     
  short   *outputimg;                                   
                              
  FILE    *fp;                                           
  int     flag1,flag2,flag3,flag4;                       
  unsigned char    buf[4],gTag1,gTag2,eTag1,eTag2;
  long    dLen;

if (argc != 3) {
    printf("Usage: %s (DICOM input file) (DICOM output file) \n", argv[0]);
    exit(0);
  }

  strcpy(infile,argv[1]);         
  strcpy(outfile,argv[2]);        


  
  printf("INPUT ORIGINAL IMAGE 	= %s \n", infile);
  printf("OUTPUT IMAGE FILE 	= %s \n", outfile);
  

  if((fp=fopen(infile,"rb")) == NULL) {
    printf("OPEN FAILED %s\n", infile);
    exit(0);
    }
  
  flag1 = flag2 = flag3 = flag4 = 0;
  
  while (flag1 == 0 || flag2 == 0 || flag3 == 0 || flag4 == 0) {
    fread(buf, sizeof(unsigned char), 1, fp);
    gTag1 = *(unsigned char*)buf;
	
    
	if(gTag1 == 0x28){
	  fread(buf, sizeof(unsigned char), 1, fp);
      gTag2 = *(unsigned char*)buf;
	  if(gTag2 == 0x00){
	    fread(buf, sizeof(unsigned char), 1, fp);
		eTag1 = *(unsigned char*)buf;

       
		if(eTag1 == 0x10){
		  fread(buf, sizeof(unsigned char), 1, fp);
		  eTag2 = *(unsigned char*)buf;
		  if(eTag2 == 0x00){
		    fread(buf, sizeof(unsigned char), 4, fp);
		    dLen = *(long*)buf;
		    fread(buf, sizeof(unsigned char), dLen, fp);
            mszy = *(int*)buf;
			flag1 = 1;
		  }
	    }
		
		
		else if(eTag1 == 0x11){
		  fread(buf, sizeof(unsigned char), 1, fp);
		  eTag2 = *(unsigned char*)buf;
		  if(eTag2 == 0x00){
		    fread(buf, sizeof(unsigned char), 4, fp);
		    dLen = *(long*)buf;
		    fread(buf, sizeof(unsigned char), dLen, fp);
            mszx = *(int*)buf;
			flag2 = 1;
		  }
		}
		
		
		else if(eTag1 == 0x00){
		  fread(buf, sizeof(unsigned char), 1, fp);
		  eTag2 = *(unsigned char*)buf;
		  if(eTag2 == 0x01){
		    fread(buf, sizeof(unsigned char), 4, fp);
		    dLen = *(long*)buf;
		    fread(buf, sizeof(unsigned char), dLen, fp);
            bit_allocated = *(int*)buf;
			flag3 = 1;
		  }
		}

	  }
	}
	
   
    else if(gTag1 == 0xE0){
	  fread(buf, sizeof(unsigned char), 1, fp);
      gTag2 = *(unsigned char*)buf;
	  if(gTag2 == 0x7F){
	    fread(buf, sizeof(char), 1, fp);
		eTag1 = *(unsigned char*)buf;
		
		
		if(eTag1 == 0x10){
		  fread(buf, sizeof(unsigned char), 1, fp);
		  eTag2 = *(unsigned char*)buf;
		  if(eTag2 == 0x00){
		    fread(buf, sizeof(unsigned char), 4, fp);
		    dLen = *(long*)buf;
			outputimg  =  (short*)malloc(dLen);
            fread(outputimg, 1, dLen, fp);
			flag4 = 1;
		  }
	    }
		
	  }
	}
  }
  fclose(fp);


  printf("Rows 		= %d \n", mszy);
  printf("Columns 	= %d \n", mszx);
  printf("Bit allocated 	= %d \n", bit_allocated);
  

  if((fp=fopen(outfile,"wb")) == NULL) {
    printf("OPEN FAILED %s\n", outfile);
    exit(0);
  }
  fwrite(outputimg, sizeof(short), mszx * mszy, fp);
  fclose(fp);


  free(outputimg);

  return 0;
}

why don't you just download the free DICOM viewer from here? There's also a discussion group where you can ask them specific questions.

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