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Data sources

DICOM-Atlas compiles tags from three categories of source.

1. Vendor conformance PDFs (PDF-verified)

Scraped under the scraper/ pipeline. Each entry carries a citation back to the originating PDF (title, vendor, version, source URL).

VendorArchive
Siemens (MR, CT, XR)archive.org/details/dicom-conformance-siemens
GE HealthCarearchive.org/details/dicom-conformance-ge
Philips Healthcarearchive.org/details/dicom-conformance-philips
Canon Medical (incl. Toshiba)archive.org/details/dicom-conformance-canon
Acuson / Siemens ultrasoundarchive.org/details/dicom-conformance-siemens (Acuson product family)

Provenance is preserved per-entry and surfaced in Tag::source().

2. PS3.6 public dictionary

The PS3.6 attribute list is parsed from the official DICOM Standard JSON at dicomstandard.org, vendored under data/standard/attributes.json. Refreshed manually when the standard publishes a new edition; the version is recorded in the CHANGELOG.

3. Community contributions (pydicom / GDCM)

Where a private tag has no vendor PDF, but is well-known from the pydicom _private_dict.py or the GDCM private dictionary, the entry is included with source = "pydicom" or source = "gdcm". PDF-sourced entries take precedence on overlapping keys.

Licensing

  • Code: Apache-2.0 (see LICENSE).
  • Data (tags.dmap, tags.csv, the JSONL snapshots, the compiled dictionary): CC-BY-SA-4.0 (see LICENSE-DATA).
  • Conformance PDFs themselves remain copyright their respective vendors and are not redistributed by this project. The archive links above are independently hosted on archive.org.