[Insight-users] getting an flat picture from dicom volume : ITK Physical Coordinate system is Right-Handed

Luis Ibanez luis.ibanez at kitware.com
Mon Feb 16 10:52:26 EST 2009


Dan Mueller wrote:
> Hi Hadi, 
> 
>>1- what's the itk coordination system ? is it
>>left-handed or right-handed ? and is it same as vtk ?
> 
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  ITK's *physical* coordinate system is right-handed.


  Beware, however, that when reading DICOM images,
  (as well as images from other formats) they may
  have direction cosines that could make the *ijk*
  coordinate system to be left or right handed.



    Regards,


       Luis



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