[Insight-users] how to write a 3D volumetric image file into one dicom file?

[Ming Chao]

I have another question. For the 3D dicom file, can I use the header file
from the origianl dicom RT dose file which has only 1 header but many
frames? Thanks,

Ming

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Ming Chao <mingchao2005 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Harvey,
>
> It is a research project. Is there an example showing how to build a dicom
> header in ITK? I may not be reading carefully enough. Thanks,
>
> Ming
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Harvey Cline <harvey.cline at kitware.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Ming
>>
>> There is nothing wrong with what you did; however, in order to create
>> a 3D dicom image you need the header information of the dicom series
>> images that you do not have. This information could be constructed
>> however in medical imaging it is dangerous to modify the DICOM headers
>> because of the posibility of errors influencing treatment.
>>
>> If this is research only and not to be used clinically, then you can
>> build the header information for the missing slices and solve your
>> problem
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> Harvey
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Ming Chao <mingchao2005 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Harvey,
>> > Thanks for your input.
>> > I don't have a series of DICOM images, but only one 3D vtk format image
>> (RT
>> > dose) containing 200 slices, which was originally an RT dose file
>> > (multiframe). What I want to do is to save this vtk image (RT dose) in
>> DICOM
>> > format using the header information from the original DICOM RT file. My
>> > problem is that I could use the series writer to save it in DICOM
>> format,
>> > however only one frame has correct info, the rest frames are just empty.
>> Is
>> > there anything wrong in what I did?
>> > Thanks,
>> > Ming
>> >
>> > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Harvey Cline <harvey.cline at kitware.com
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Ming
>> >>
>> >> Using the ITK example in IO to read a series of DICOM images and
>> >> writing out a file using dimension = 3, a 3D DICOM file is created by
>> >> selecting an output file name with a "dcm" extension.
>> >>
>> >> Hope this helps
>> >>
>> >> Harvey
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Ming Chao <mingchao2005 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> > Hello ITKers,
>> >> > Is it possible to write a 3D volumetric image file into one dicom
>> file
>> >> > in
>> >> > itk? Thanks,
>> >> > Ming
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