Makhaon Dicom Dump – is a free software

Can browse directory structure

Support analyzing, editing and viewing DICOM files

Support coloring every element of a tag – Group Number, Element Number, Length, Start At, each element of multiplicity values

Support all standard tags (under standard DICOM 2014c) and their VR (Value Representation)

Correctly parse tags with VM (Value Multiplicity)

Can add, change, delete any tag

Can add, delete sequence element

Can show and change a file preamble

Support tag designer

Support file anonymization

Can create a log while parse DICOM file

Can find some errors in the file

Can sort tags

Can search information into a file

Can expand SQ tags after load

Support hex view of file

Support store DICOM tags tree into a text file

Support save pixel data as a binary or bitmap file

Support copy pixel data to a clipboard

Support viewing loaded file or its first frame

Support display of corner overlays, orientation labels, back and bottom rulers

Can show general file info

It can, inter alia, verify different DICOM instances:

Check for Value Multiplicity (VM).

Check for unknown Value Representations (VR).

Check for VR conformity to the standard.

Check for length of the all strings.

Check for correct numbers values.

Check for character sets of strings values.

Check for UID conformity. Leading zeros and other.

Check for padding value availability and conformity to VRs.

Check for therms in the tags with help of a dictionary.

Check for same UIDs in the 0002,0002 and 0008,0016; 0002,0003 and 0008,0018.

Check for dicomdir: linked files existence, referential integrity, correct names of the files.

Some additional checks for SQ tags integrity.

Results of the check are shown in user friendly tag coloring manner.