[Insight-users] ITK Dicom imagedata to VTK imagedata

[Sercani]

Isn't there any other way to convert directly
itk::ImageSeriesReader->getOutput() to vtkImageData? I've seen some filters
for this process but I'm not sure about how to use them...

-----Original Message-----
From: Mathieu Malaterre [mailto:mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:32 PM
To: Sercani
Subject: Re: [Insight-users] ITK Dicom imagedata to VTK imagedata

You could also used directlry:

vtkGDCMImageReader.

See:

http://www.reviewingit.com/index.php/content/view/62/2/

HTH

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Sercani <sercanimailgroups at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi everyone;
>
> I am writing a MPR and VRT application for DICOM datasets in C++. Firstly
I
> was using vtkDicomImageReader for reading DICOM series, I created MPR
> section and it works great, but VTK doesn't support to parse all of the
> DICOM headers. So I decided to use ITK and GDCM to read DICOM header . Now
> my application reads the same DICOM set twice (with VTK and GDCM) so I
want
> to manage all reading process with ITK and GDCM. I've parsed the header as
> illustrated in Insight\Examples\IO\DicomSeriesReadPrintTags.cxx . How can
I
> convert reader->GetOutput() to vtkImageData ?
>
> Thanks already;
>
>
>
>             typedef signed short PixelType;
>
>             const unsigned int Dimension = 3;
>
>             typedef itk::Image< PixelType, Dimension > ImageType;
>
>             typedef itk::ImageSeriesReader< ImageType > ReaderType;
>
>             ReaderType::Pointer reader = ReaderType::New();
>
>             typedef itk::GDCMImageIO ImageIOType;
>
>             ImageIOType::Pointer dicomIO = ImageIOType::New();
>
>             reader->SetImageIO( dicomIO );
>
>             typedef itk::GDCMSeriesFileNames NamesGeneratorType;
>
>             NamesGeneratorType::Pointer nameGenerator =
> NamesGeneratorType::New();
>
>             nameGenerator->SetInputDirectory( dir.c_str() );
>
>             typedef std::vector<std::string> FileNamesContainer;
>
>             FileNamesContainer fileNames =
> nameGenerator->GetInputFileNames();
>
>             reader->SetFileNames( fileNames );
>
>             try
>
>             {
>
>                   reader->Update();
>
>             }
>
>
>
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