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yarikoptic committed Mar 31, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -389,8 +389,9 @@ acquisition parameters available in DICOM files, we RECOMMEND that users provide
additional meta information extracted from DICOM files in a sidecar JSON file
(with the same filename as the `.nii[.gz]` file, but with a `.json` extension).
Many of such metadata entries are explicitly formalized in BIDS and could be found listed in the [Glossary](./glossary.md).
Whenever formalizing a new metadata entry within BIDS, the name SHOULD correspond to original DICOM Tag whenever the value is taken *as is* without any further harmonization.
The description of the term in the schema SHOULD describe such correspondence as "Corresponds to DICOM Tag ID1, ID2 `DICOM Tag Name`.".
Whenever formalizing a new metadata entry within BIDS, the name SHOULD correspond to the original DICOM Tag whenever the value is taken *as is* without any further harmonization.
The description of the term in the schema then SHOULD describe such correspondence as "Corresponds to DICOM Tag ID1, ID2 `DICOM Tag Name`.".
If value is harmonized, the description SHOULD describe such correspondence as "Based on DICOM Tag ID1, ID2 `DICOM Tag Name`.".
Extraction of BIDS compatible metadata can be performed using [dcm2niix](https://github.com/rordenlab/dcm2niix)
and [dicm2nii](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/42997-xiangruili-dicm2nii)
DICOM to NIfTI converters. The [BIDS-validator](https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-validator)
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