[Insight-users] how dicom writer handles pixel data

[Bill Lorensen]

I believe you are correct. It does not rescale the pixels and resets the
intercept,

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Li, Wen <WLi at childrensnational.org> wrote:

>  Hi Insight-users,
>
> I have tried to search in the mailing list for an updated answer about how
> ITK4 nightly handles pixel data when it writes out dicom files with gdcmIO,
> but couldn't.
>
> This is what I got from my experience.
> 1. Pixel value doesn't get reversely rescaled using user specified
> "RescaleIntercept (0028|1052)" and "RescaleSlope (0028|1053)".
> 2. The output dicom always has those two values reset to be 0.0 and 1.0,
> no matter what values are set in metadatadictionary before writer.update()
>
> Did I get it right?
>
> Thanks,
> Wen
>
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