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AcquisitionDuration - misunderstanding?

Open karl-koschutnig opened this issue 9 months ago • 1 comments

Dear experts,

We are using the latest bids-validator and have to deal with this error:

The fields 'RepetitionTime' and 'AcquisitionDuration' for this file are mutually exclusive. To specify acquisition duration, use 'SliceTiming' or 'DelayTime' (RepetitionTime - AcquisitionDuration).

The dicom tag tells us: (0018,9073) Acquisition Duration FD 1 8 313.17700000000002 (0018,0080) Repetition Time DS 1 4 1970

It's 313 seconds vs. 1970 ms.

So in our opinion, the Acquisition duration should be: TR * nr.Volumes.

The provided link also tells us: Acquisition duration: Duration of the single continuous gathering of data over a period of time that resulted in this instance, in seconds.

https://dicom.innolitics.com/ciods/computed-radiography-image/general-acquisition/00189073

karl-koschutnig avatar Jan 30 '25 15:01 karl-koschutnig