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It is sometimes helpful to be able to find a particular tag. Pydicom has done a great job of providing a dictionary of tags:

from pydicom._dicom_dict import DicomDictionary

Search By Name

and we extend that here to make it easy to find tags. For example, we can use a function to search based on name:

from deid.dicom.tags import find_tag
find_tag('Modality')

[('CS', '1', 'Modality', '', 'Modality'),
 ('SQ', '1', 'Modality LUT Sequence', '', 'ModalityLUTSequence'),
 ('LO', '1', 'Modality LUT Type', '', 'ModalityLUTType'),
 ('CS', '1', 'Equipment Modality', '', 'EquipmentModality')]

We can also limit to a particular VR, or VM:

find_tag('Modality', VR='CS')
[('CS', '1', 'Modality', '', 'Modality'),
 ('CS', '1', 'Equipment Modality', '', 'EquipmentModality')]

Search Repeaters (Retired)

If you want to search the set of Repeats (or tags I think pydicom doesn’t use / calls retired). Then set retired=True. For example, when I search for Overlay Description the normal way I get nothing, but setting this flag returns the (old) value. This would be useful given that you need to look up a tag for an older dataset.

find_tag('Overlay Description')

find_tag('Overlay Description',retired=True)
[('LO', '1', 'Overlay Description', '', 'OverlayDescription')]