[Insight-users] Exporting registration's result as Dicom serie

Laurent PAUL Laurent.Paul at orto.ucl.ac.be
Thu May 11 08:50:23 EDT 2006


Hi Luis,

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Laurent.



> Hi Laurent,
>
> At the end of a registration process, the resampled moving image
> is in the coordinate system of the Fixed image.
>
> This means that your DICOM dictionary should take from the Fixed
> image all the information corresponding to:
>
>
>     1) Origin
>     2) Spacing
>     3) Number of pixels along every direction
>
> and from the Moving image DICOM dictionary all the information
> regarding Modality, patient info, and intensity range.
>
>
> You will have to "manually" get some tags from the DICOM input
> Fixed image and insert then in the MetaDataDictionary that you
> are passing from the Moving image to the Resampled Moving image.
>
>
> You will find examples on how to get DICOM tags, and how to
> insert DICOM tags in the source code files in
>
>
>                   Insight/Code/IO
>
>
>    Regards,
>
>
>
>       Luis
>
>
>
> ===================
> Laurent PAUL wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to register Dicom volumes and save the resulting volume as
>> Dicom.
>> There is a problem.
>> So far, I used the DicomDictionary from the MovingVolume to save the
>> dicom
>> serie. The first problem is when the fixed volume has more slices than
>> the
>> moving one. The resulting transformed volume has the number of slices of
>> Fixed Volume.
>> My program crashes since DicomDictionary hasn't enough information to
>> export so much files.
>> Another problem is the MovingVolume's origin. So far, resulting volume's
>> origin was unchanged and I think it isn't consistent. Since volumes are
>> registered, they share the same coordinates system, so the same origin.
>>
>> For these reasons, I think it is more consistent to use the
>> DicomDictionary conming from the FixedVolume. Is it right?
>> If I use FixedVolume dictionary, Do I have to change some dicom values
>> (as
>> patient's name and other more important)?
>> Is it better to use Moving dictionary and change values (as origin,
>> ImagePositionPatient...)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Laurent.
>>
>>
>>
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