How to convert UUID/GUID to OID/DICOM UID in JavaScript?

Question

How can I convert an UUID/GUID value like 8348d2c5-0a65-4560-bb24-f4f6bcba601d (that I genreated with uuid v4) in to OID/DICOM UID like 2.25.17450698773882054

Answer 1

Just in case you want library that serves the same purpose, you may use dicomuid.js written by samucs (StackOverflow profile).

This does not require organization root prefix; this uses "2.25." as prefix. This uses Universally Unique Identifier (UUID). It converts the UUID to a single large decimal number.

Following is the code copied from github:

// Create new DICOM UID.
// Result will be like 2.25.176371623884904210764200284661930180516
var uid1 = DICOMUID.create();

// Create DICOM UID from a RFC4122 v4 UUID.
// Result for line below is 2.25.329800735698586629295641978511506172918
var uid2 = DICOMUID.create("f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6");