Hi Caspar,

I can't address your question regarding a specific tool, but wanted to mention a note of caution.

You need to make sure that you scrub any identifying info from Siemen's custom DICOM fields (not just the obvious public DICOM fields).

The challenge of doing that is why the safest thing is to not enter any identifying info at the scanner to begin with.

cheers,

-MH

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From: "Caspar M. Schwiedrzik" <cschwiedrz@mail.rockefeller.edu>
Reply-To: Freesurfer support list <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Date: Thursday, March 20, 2014 4:29 PM
To: "Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu" <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Cc: Julia Sliwa <jsliwa@mail.rockefeller.edu>
Subject: [Freesurfer] Anonymizing Siemens DICOM files

Hi Freesurfer Experts,
we are looking for a good way to remove subject names and dates of birth from Siemens DICOM headers. Is there something implemented in Freesurfer?

Matlab's Image Processing Toolbox has a function to anonymize DICOM files (http://www.mathworks.com/help/images/ref/dicomanon.html), but we later run into trouble with unpacksdcmdir when we use that.

Thanks, Caspar

 

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