[Insight-users] ITK Dicom Pixeldata

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Andy,

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Andy Ettisberger <ettisberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Luis,
> I changed now the concept of the loading and made some changes. The speed
> isnt really a problem anymore, more important is the RAM of the ipad,
> because we had problems with loading big dicom stacks. But I got now a ipad2
> with more RAM and will do some tests.
> I got two other questions. Is it faster to load a whole stack with
> SetFilenames or to load slice per slice with SetFilename? Or is it more or
> less the same?

I would expect it to be about the same.

but...
reasoning should never be justification
for not performing an experiment       :-)


> And a question because of the header data. When I got dicom stacks which
> have slices with different patient image orientation, how can I load the
> different header data? Do I have to load one slice and get the header data
> or is there another way?


You can get some of the image metadata
without having to load the full pixel data
by calling

        reader->ReadImageInformation()



       Luis