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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+# Orthanc - A Lightweight, RESTful DICOM Store
+# Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Sebastien Jodogne, Medical Physics
+# Department, University Hospital of Liege, Belgium
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+# License, or (at your option) any later version.
+# 
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+# General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+
+
+# This sample shows how to carry on a manual modification of DICOM
+# tags spread accross various levels (Patient/Study/Series/Instance)
+# that would normally forbidden as such by the REST API of Orthanc to
+# avoid breaking the DICOM hierarchy. This sample can be useful for
+# more complex anonymization/modification scenarios, or for optimizing
+# the disk usage (the original and the modified instances never
+# coexist).
+
+from RestToolbox import *
+
+URL = 'http://localhost:8042'
+STUDY = '27f7126f-4f66fb14-03f4081b-f9341db2-53925988'
+
+identifiers = {}
+
+for instance in DoGet('%s/studies/%s/instances' % (URL, STUDY)):
+    # Setup the parameters of the modification
+    replace = { 
+        "PatientID" : "Hello",
+        "PatientName" : "Modified",
+        "StationName" : "TEST",
+    }
+
+    # Get the original UIDs of the instance
+    seriesUID = DoGet('%s/instances/%s/content/SeriesInstanceUID' % (URL, instance['ID']))
+    if seriesUID in identifiers:
+        replace['SeriesInstanceUID'] = identifiers[seriesUID]
+
+    studyUID = DoGet('%s/instances/%s/content/StudyInstanceUID' % (URL, instance['ID']))
+    if studyUID in identifiers:
+        replace['StudyInstanceUID'] = identifiers[studyUID]
+
+    # Manually modify the instance
+    print('Modifying instance %s' % instance['ID'])
+    modified = DoPost('%s/instances/%s/modify' % (URL, instance['ID']),
+                      { "Replace" : replace })
+
+    # Remove the original instance
+    DoDelete('%s/instances/%s' % (URL, instance['ID']))
+
+    # Add the modified instance
+    modifiedId = DoPost('%s/instances' % URL, modified)['ID']
+
+    # Register the modified UIDs
+    identifiers[seriesUID] = DoGet('%s/instances/%s/content/SeriesInstanceUID' % (URL, modifiedId))
+    identifiers[studyUID] = DoGet('%s/instances/%s/content/StudyInstanceUID' % (URL, modifiedId))