dicom2/vtk (était Re: ANYBODY USE VTK TO RENDER DICOM DATA FORMAT?)

[Sebastien Barre]

(well, I guess this time I should add an entry to the FAQ, but what is the 
password ?!)

At 20:09 27/03/00 +0800, #LOH YONG CHONG# a écrit:
>Dear all,
>
>Has anyone sucessfully use vtk to render to read, and render DICOM3 file
>format? Please advise on how could it be done?


Not directly, but VTK is able to read both 2D and 3D *raw* files (see 
vtkImageReader, vtkVolumeReader, and derived classes). Hence, the trick is 
to convert DICOM files to a suitable raw format.

DICOM is a huge protocol, thus I would suggest anyone not to reinvent the 
wheel, and look for any existing converters. Some of them are listed in the 
"bible", aka The Medical Image Format FAQ: 
http://idt.net/~dclunie/medical-image-faq/html/

I wrote a free DICOM converter, named dicom2, that might be used to convert 
medical images to raw format (and this is how I deal with medical images 
actually). Be aware that it is a command line tool, not a fancy widget :)

http://www.hds.utc.fr/~barre/medical/dicom2/

There is a special section dedicated to the VTK :

http://www.hds.utc.fr/~barre/medical/dicom2/how-to.html
then "Convert to raw (vtk)"

Hope it helps

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