[Insight-users] Help with Dicom PET images

[Markus Weigert]

Hi all,

I have a problem regarding dicom PET image series.
To load and use those images, I use itk::image<short,3> as container.
The problem is that those PET images show very high values, which
are over the range of short datatype (also above unsigned short).
I tried to switch to "int" and was able to read and display the series, 
but unfortunately, I also need to write the data in dicom format.
However, when I try to write a dicom series using an itk::image<int,3>,
I get an error message, that dicom does not support this datatype!!!!
So what can I do?
I do not want to rescale the image though this would violate the physical
meaning of the values.
I just wonder that dicom is someway coding these high values (because the
original values can be loaded properly from a serie), but doesn't let me write it.


Kind regards,
Markus


 
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