Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> I have had a request to store a DICOM AS for a mummy. Of course the age
> would be something like: "3000Y" which does not works with the current
> definition of the AS VR.
> Another solution could be to add 'C' for century for the format, and I
> could solve my issue with "030C"
>
> Any suggestion ?
> Thanks
> Mathieu

Good question, we have a customer (a universitary lab) that uses our
extremity MR scanner for analyzing geological cores and samples, I
wonder what they put in the Date of Birth...

I do not think our User's Interface allows to input things like 100,000
BC; fortunately (for me) as far as I know they did not buy the DICOM
option :-)

Luigi P.B.
Esaote S.p.A. - Genova - Italy

Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> I have had a request to store a DICOM AS for a mummy. Of course the age
> would be something like: "3000Y" which does not works with the current
> definition of the AS VR.

Probabely the guy wasn't 3000Y old when he died.
What about improving the DA VR, alowing it to start by BC?
Jean-Pierre Roux

> Another solution could be to add 'C' for century for the format, and I
> could solve my issue with "030C"
>
> Any suggestion ?
> Thanks
> Mathieu
>

Jean-Pierre Roux wrote:
> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> > I have had a request to store a DICOM AS for a mummy. Of course the age
> > would be something like: "3000Y" which does not works with the current
> > definition of the AS VR.
>
> Probabely the guy wasn't 3000Y old when he died.
> What about improving the DA VR, alowing it to start by BC?
> Jean-Pierre Roux
>
> > Another solution could be to add 'C' for century for the format, and I
> > could solve my issue with "030C"
> >
> > Any suggestion ?
> > Thanks
> > Mathieu
> >

Should there be (or is there already?) a set of tables defined in P.S.
3.16 that define a framework for creating SRs that address this issue?

Razvan

Razvan Costea-Barlutiu wrote:
> Jean-Pierre Roux wrote:
> > Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> > > I have had a request to store a DICOM AS for a mummy. Of course the age
> > > would be something like: "3000Y" which does not works with the current
> > > definition of the AS VR.
> >
> > Probabely the guy wasn't 3000Y old when he died.
> > What about improving the DA VR, alowing it to start by BC?
> > Jean-Pierre Roux
> >
> > > Another solution could be to add 'C' for century for the format, and I
> > > could solve my issue with "030C"
> > >
> > > Any suggestion ?
> > > Thanks
> > > Mathieu
> > >
>
> Should there be (or is there already?) a set of tables defined in P.S.
> 3.16 that define a framework for creating SRs that address this issue?

All I can find is :
Page 483:
CID 7456 Units of Measure for Age Context ID 7456 Units of Measure for
Age
But Code Meaning can only take the following values:

year month week day hour minute

Anyway thanks a lot for the reference !
Mathieu