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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a problem regarding dicom PET image
series.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To load and use those images, I use
itk::image<short,3> as container.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The problem is that those PET images show very high
values, which</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>are over the range of short datatype
(also above unsigned short).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I tried to switch to "int" and was able to read and
display the series, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>but unfortunately, </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>I
also need to write the data in dicom format.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>However, when I try to write a dicom series using
an itk::image<int,3>,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I get an error message, that dicom does not support
this datatype!!!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So what can I do?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I do not want to rescale the image though this
would violate the physical</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>meaning of the values.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I just wonder that dicom is someway coding
these high values (because the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>original values can be loaded properly from a
serie), but doesn't let me write it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kind regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Markus</FONT></DIV>
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