# GDCMImageIO

**URL:** <https://discourse.itk.org/t/gdcmimageio/402>\
**Category:** Algorithms\
**Tags:** dicom\
**Created:** [November 9, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/gdcmimageio/402 "2017-11-09T14:25:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![coertmetz](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/coertmetz/32/43_2.png) [@coertmetz](https://discourse.itk.org/u/coertmetz)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/gdcmimageio/402/1 "2017-11-09T14:25:17Z")

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GDCMImageIO seems to use GDCM’s default for the transfer syntax, which is an implicit one. Is there a way to make it use explicit transfer syntax?