[Insight-users] How to read/write multiple images

[Ron Inbar]

Hi Luis,

Does this mean the FilePrefix and FilePattern are currently meaningless?
Does it matter if I specify the LargestPossibleRegion or the RequestedRegion
for the Output of the ImageFileReader?

Ron

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luis Ibanez [mailto:luis.ibanez@kitware.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 5:16 PM
> To: Ron Inbar
> Cc: insight-users@public.kitware.com
> Subject: Re: [Insight-users] How to read/write multiple images
> 
> Hi Ron,
> 
> I assume that you are thinking on volume data
> stored as one slice per file, like Dicom.
> 
> There is some work in progress for implementing
> a Series reader.
> 
> In the meantime the simples way to read series
> is to create a MetaImage header for them.
> 
> The header specifies the image size, spacing,
> origin and the filenames of the slices. The range
> of files to be read is defined implicitly here
> by selecting the filenames of the slices.
> 
> You pass this .mha text header to the
> ImageFileReader and it will take care of the
> rest.
> 
> A nice help for creating MetaImage headers is to
> use the "MetaImageImporter" application in available
> in InsightApplications.
> 
> Given that the header is just a plain ascii text
> file, another easy way to get it done is to take
> a header from another image and edit it with any
> text editor.
> 
> The Series file reader will offer a much better
> interface once it becomes available.
> 
> Please let us know if you have other questions.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Luis
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> Ron Inbar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > I know that the ImageFileReader can read multiple files using the
> > FilePrefix and FilePattern.
> >
> > My question is: how to set the range of files to be read?
> >
> >
> >
> > Ron
> >
> >
> >
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