[Insight-users] DICOM and orientation

[Amardeep Singh]

Hi

I guess, you could use the itkFlipImageFilter before you pass the image
to VTK for visualisation.
Unfortunately, I don't know how to do that in WrapITK, but in the
following post you can see
an example of its use in C++:
http://www.nabble.com/Re:-Nifti-vs-Dicom-orientation-td23276815.html

The following post might be of interest, as well:
http://www.itk.org/pipermail/insight-users/2005-April/012900.html

HTH
Amardeep

Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao wrote:
> no, I don't miss the answer, in fact, I asked how to display the image
> in a correct way!!!
>
> On 6/30/09, Amardeep Singh <amar.singh at gmx.de> wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> You might have missed Bill Lorensen's answer to your question. Have
>> another look:
>> http://n2.nabble.com/DICOM-and-orientation-td3176010.html#a3176022
>>
>> Regards
>> Amardeep
>>
>> Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao wrote:
>>     
>>> no one?
>>>
>>> On 6/29/09, Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao <jmrbcu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> hi folks, I'm reading a dicom image with itk (WrapITK) and visualizing
>>>> with vtk but, when I try to visualize it, it show inverted in the
>>>> screen, this is my code to read and visualize the image:
>>>>
>>>> image_type = itk.Image[itk.SS, 2]
>>>>
>>>> image_type = itk.Image[itk.SS, 2]
>>>> fr = itk.ImageFileReader[image_type].New()
>>>> con = itk.ImageToVTKImageFilter[image_type].New()
>>>>
>>>> fr.SetFileName('/home/jmrbcu/temp/IM66.dcm')
>>>> con.SetInput(fr.GetOutput())
>>>>
>>>> v = vtk.vtkImageViewer2()
>>>> ri = vtk.vtkRenderWindowInteractor()
>>>> v.SetupInteractor(ri)
>>>> v.SetInput(con.GetOutput())
>>>>
>>>> v.Render()
>>>> v.SetColorWindow(255)
>>>> v.SetColorLevel(128)
>>>>
>>>> ri.Start()
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao
>>>> Centro de Biofisica Medica
>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Todos somos muy ignorantes, lo que ocurre es que no todos ignoramos lo
>>>> mismo.
>>>>
>>>> Recuerda: El arca de Noe fue construida por aficionados, el titanic
>>>> por profesionales
>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>
>>>       
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