[Insight-users] DICOM volume problem

Henkjan Huisman h.huisman at rad.umcn.nl
Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:09:44 +0100


Hi Mathieu,

I am definitely using VTK and DCMTK. Gdcm seems very interesting!
However, that won't solve the problem of NOT being able to receive these
DCM objects with DCMTK. Will CTN be able to receive these objects from
the radiology archive? Have you used that?

Thanks for the help,

Henkjan

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 15:10, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Henkjan,
> 
> 	Are you using vtk ? If so you might want to try: gdcm:
> 
> 	http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/Public/Gdcm/
> 
> 	It comes with a vtkGdcmReader that handles mutliframes DICOM images.
> 
> HTH
> Mathieu
> 
> Henkjan Huisman wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Just stumbled upon a problem that may affect itk DICOM. We have a PET
> > system in our hospital using HERMES software. It outputs DICOM to our
> > archive. We have been using OFFIS DICOM tools to query/send/receive
> > DICOM images into our VTK/ITK software. Recently, HERMES changed
> > format....... 
> > 
> > ....... A DICOM image volume is now contained in one file! So, no more
> > separate images, but one file containing the volume. Which is very nice,
> > because you don't have to bother about having all images, and other
> > checks. The problem, however, is that OFFIS doesn't accept these types
> > of DICOM images volume files. 
> > 
> > I would guess that itk DICOM import wouldn't accept these images either,
> > but well, I can't get these images from the archive..... :-< 
> > 
> > 1. So, has anyone dealt with this problem? 
> > 2. What DICOM library do you use to get such images out of your archive.
> > (Is CTN doing this?)
> > 3. Have you read such images into ITK?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> 
-- 
Henkjan

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