[Insight-users] Orientation Information

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:07 AM,  <J.S.Wijnhout at lumc.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As far as I know ITK does not use a standard coordinate system, it uses
> the coordinate system provided by the image data. If you use DICOM, the
> coordinate system is the patient coordinate system (with the z-axis
> running from foot to head, the x-axis pointing to the left side of the
> patient). However in older DICOM formats it was customary to use the
> device coordinate system, which can be different for each device type
> (which is why it should not be used any longer).

just a quick note, that was defined for ACR NEMA which is pre-1993.
Since then DICOM orientation is expressed in patient coordinate
system.

2cts
-- 
Mathieu