You could also do it the following way: (you need to download dcmtk)
Assuming you have a bunch of files called MR.*

for dicom in MR.*
do
    dcmodify -m "(0010,0010)=PatientsName" ${dicom}
    dcmodify -m "(0010,0030)=YYYYMMDD" ${dicom}
done

This backs up all the dicoms (they become "MR.*.bak"), which you can delete when you verify the new header. Replace "PatientsName" with whatever you want.
However, as Michael Harms mentioned there may be identifying info elsewhere in the file.
On 03/21/2014 12:10 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote:
yup, that's it
thanks Caspar
Bruce
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Caspar M. Schwiedrzik wrote:

Thanks to all that have replied so far!
Bruce, are you referring to this: http://freesurfer.net/fswiki/BIRND-UP ?
Thanks, Caspar



2014-03-20 17:40 GMT-04:00 Harms, Michael <mharms@wustl.edu>:

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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Washington University School of Medicine
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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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