[Insight-users] DICOMDIR + ITK

[Bill Lorensen]

There is no standard extension for dicom files.The directory structure
that you see is one selected by the vendor. There is no standard
directory structure for dicom files. The OBJ0000n are probably dicom
files. Most dicom viewers will walk the directories and discover the
dicom images, collecting them into series.

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:26 AM, jmerkow <jmerkow at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
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> This is a bit confusing....
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> So the DICOMDIR gives you a list of file names of each DICOM file?
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> This is what I have  I have a DICOMDIR file, a PATIENTS file and PFINDEX
> file(no extensions on any of them)
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> Then there is a single dir called PAT00000. Inside PAT00000 There are a
> number of studies in STU0000n directories.  Each with a number of image
> series dirs, SER0000n.  Inside each of those directories are files called
> OBJ0000n which is the actually images(I presume).
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> I included some screen shots of the file structure in case my explanation is
> confusing (at the very bottom)
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> None of the files have file extensions, or I would simply get a DICOMDIR
> viewer and then try to load each series with the metadata card-coded (brute
> force).  I would like to be able to take in data of this nature and use the
> DICOMDIR file and access all the metadata.
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> What it sounds like you are saying that the DICOMDIR is a file that just
> points to DICOM files.  It seems that I don't have any, and this data is
> contained in DICOMDIR, PATIENTS, or PFINDEX. In this case will the DICOMDIR
> (gdcm::DICOMDIR) work?
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> If not can you recommend an alternative solution?
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> malat wrote:
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>> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 6:23 PM, jmerkow <jmerkow at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>>> I am trying to use GDCM to read DICOMDIR and reformat it into a format
>>> that
>>> ITK can read.
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>> DICOMDIR are Meta File. They contains a list of DICOM filenames
>> (basically the output of `ls DICOM/*`).
>> You should use GDCMSeriesFileNames if you want to select filenames.
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>> 2cts
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>> Mathieu
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