Moreover, the image is supposed to be a regular DICOM file, not a DICOMDIR. (0002, 0010) Transfer Syntax UID UI: Explicit VR Little Endian (0002, 0002) Media Storage SOP Class UID UI: Media Storage Directory Storage
_file_meta_info is about the only thing that's not returned an error and yields (0002, 0000) File Meta Information Group Length UL: 172 I'm unable to read in a DICOM file as I usually would, citing the error: AttributeError: 'DicomDir' object has no attribute 'DirectoryRecordSequence'