[Insight-users] Dimensionality in itkDICOMImageSeriesTest

[Bill Lorensen]

Jenny,

The 5th dimension is just specified to test the code. You should change it 
to 3. This should work. Is this CT or MR data? If CT, you should declare it 
short, not unsigned short.

Bill

At 12:10 PM 9/11/2003 -0600, Jenny Simpson wrote:
>I'm trying to create a 3D volume out of a series of DICOM files by using
>the itkDICOMImageSeriesTest.cxx code in a separate application.  However,
>my application isn't working because the itk::Image declared in
>itkDICOMImageSeriesTest.cxx is actually of dimension 5.  Here's the code:
>
>typedef itk::Image<unsigned short,5> ImageNDType;
>
>I need an itk::Image of this format:
>
>typedef itk::Image<unsigned short,3> ImageNDType;
>
>Why are there 5 dimensions?  What are the extra two dimensions for?
>
>I tried just changing the 5 to a 3, but I don't get the data I expect and
>my 3D (represented as 2D) image is blank.
>
>Any advice on what to do here?  I could just read one DICOM file at a time
>and stack the slices to form a 3D volume myself, but I'd rather not if
>there's a better way.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jenny Simpson
>Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
>University of Utah
>
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