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DICOM metadata constraints

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DICOM metadata constraints - AWS HealthImaging

When you use UpdateImageSetMetadata to update HealthImaging metadata attributes, the following DICOM constraints are applied.

  • Cannot update or remove private attributes on Patient/Study/Series/Instance level attributes unless the update constraint applies to both updatableAttributes and removableAttributes

  • Cannot update the following AWS HealthImaging generated attributes: SchemaVersion, DatastoreID, ImageSetID, PixelData, Checksum, Width, Height, MinPixelValue, MaxPixelValue, FrameSizeInBytes

  • Cannot update the following DICOM attributes unless the force flag is set: Tag.PixelData, Tag.StudyInstanceUID, Tag.SeriesInstanceUID, Tag.SOPInstanceUID, Tag.StudyID

  • Cannot update attributes with VR type SQ (nested attributes) unless the force flag is set

  • Cannot update multivalued attributes unless the force flag is set

  • Cannot update attributes with values that are not compatible with the attribute VR type unless the force flag is set

  • Cannot update attributes which are not considered valid attributes according to the DICOM standard unless the force flag is set

  • Cannot update attributes across modules. For example, if a Patient level attribute is given at the Study level in customer payload request, the request can be invalidated.

  • Cannot update attributes if the associated attribute module is not present in existing ImageSetMetadata. For example, you are not allowed to update attributes for a seriesInstanceUID if the Series with seriesInstanceUID is not present in existing image set metadata.

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