# Problem reading a series UIDs

**URL:** https://discourse.itk.org/t/problem-reading-a-series-uids/1641
**Category:** Engineering
**Created:** [March 7, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/problem-reading-a-series-uids/1641 "2019-03-07T16:01:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Roulbac](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/roulbac/32/571_2.png) [@Roulbac](https://discourse.itk.org/u/Roulbac)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2019, 3:09am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/problem-reading-a-series-uids/1641/21 "2019-03-09T03:09:06Z")

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Okay will try that!

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### Author: ![mihail.isakov](https://discourse.itk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mihail.isakov](https://discourse.itk.org/u/mihail.isakov)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2019, 3:09am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/problem-reading-a-series-uids/1641/22 "2019-03-09T03:09:20Z")

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BWT, just for completeness : illegal tag (0800, 0005) is a typo, i looked inside data it has. Somebody inserted it instead (0008,0005) “Specific Character Set”

 ![Screenshot%20at%202019-03-09%2004-06-27](https://discourse.itk.org/uploads/default/original/1X/ac2b0c66d965cb38c901fe644a2db89c27c04ce3.png)

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### Author: ![Roulbac](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/roulbac/32/571_2.png) [@Roulbac](https://discourse.itk.org/u/Roulbac)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/problem-reading-a-series-uids/1641/23 "2019-03-09T15:44:59Z")

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Removing tags in that range fixed my problem, thank you for sharing your solution!  
For problems in the future, how do you recommend I inspect a dicom’s metadata and spot buggy tags?

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### Author: ![mihail.isakov](https://discourse.itk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mihail.isakov](https://discourse.itk.org/u/mihail.isakov)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/problem-reading-a-series-uids/1641/24 "2019-03-11T07:24:53Z")

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> how do you recommend I inspect a dicom’s metadata and spot buggy tags?

Oh, not sure, removing and editing tags is unusual. Good metadata viewer/editor might be helpful.

@dzenanz BTW, might be interesting - GDCM _always_ processes overlays, curves and icon images

[gdcmPixmapReader.cxx](https://github.com/malaterre/GDCM/blob/69cf8130b042be15ffbf7427cc5aa05a13723aa1/Source/MediaStorageAndFileFormat/gdcmPixmapReader.cxx#L961)

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### Author: ![dzenanz](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/dzenanz/32/1093_2.png) [@dzenanz](https://discourse.itk.org/u/dzenanz)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/problem-reading-a-series-uids/1641/25 "2019-03-11T16:14:52Z")

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I think that most 2D DICOM viewers also allow viewing tags. There are many viewers, try a few and pick one. You could also try a command-line utility [`dcmdump`](https://support.dcmtk.org/docs/dcmdump.html).

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