[vtkusers] how to use dicom file in vtk?

kingaza at gmail.com kingaza at gmail.com
Sat Dec 11 04:09:47 EST 2004


thx for your advice
but i still have some strange questions
the application runs without occuring any errors, except that it only
show a black window. there are 10 dicom files in the diretory, so is
it because:
no image inputted
or
wrong mapper setting?




On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:58:04 +0800, Yan Pingkun <pingkun at ieee.org> wrote:
> In your case, the file path under Windows should be like
> "E:\\dicomfile".
> 
> 
> 
> On 10-Dec-04, at PM 04:07, <kingaza at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > thx for your kind help
> >
> > i have tried to make use of the class vtkDICOMImageReader
> > but it tell me that it cann't open the files
> > could you help me? i am so puzzled
> >
> > these are my codes:
> >
> >
> >       vtkDICOMImageReader *reader = vtkDICOMImageReader::New();
> >       reader->SetDirectoryName("E://dicomfile");
> >
> >       int i;
> >       vtkImageReslice             *reslice[9];
> >       vtkImageMagnify             *magnify[9];
> >       vtkImageMapper              *image_mapper[9];
> >       vtkActor2D                  *image_actor[9] ;
> >       vtkRenderer                 *ren[9] ;
> >
> >
> >       vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow *renwin =
> > vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow::New();
> >
> >       for(i=0;i<9;i++)
> >       {
> >               reslice[i] = vtkImageReslice::New();
> >               magnify[i] = vtkImageMagnify::New();
> >               image_mapper[i]=vtkImageMapper::New();
> >               image_actor[i] = vtkActor2D::New();
> >                 ren[i] = vtkRenderer::New();
> >       }
> >
> >       for(i=0;i<9;i++)
> >       {
> >               reslice[i] -> SetInput(reader->GetOutput());
> >               reslice[i] -> SetResliceAxesDirectionCosines(0,1,0,0,0,-1,-1,0,0);
> > //-1, 0, 0, 0,-1, 0, 0, 0, -1
> >
> >               magnify[i] -> SetInput(reslice[i] -> GetOutput());
> >               magnify[i] -> SetMagnificationFactors(3,3,3);//(IMAGE_MAG_X,
> > IMAGE_MAG_Y, IMAGE_MAG_Z);//initial value
> >               magnify[i] -> InterpolateOn();
> >
> >               image_mapper[i] -> SetInput(magnify[i] -> GetOutput());
> >               image_mapper[i] -> SetColorWindow(255);
> >               image_mapper[i] -> SetColorLevel(127.5);
> >               image_mapper[i] -> SetColorWindow(2000);
> >               image_mapper[i] -> SetColorLevel(1000);
> >               image_mapper[i] -> SetZSlice(20+15*i);
> >
> >               image_actor[i] -> SetMapper(image_mapper[i]);
> >               image_actor[i] -> SetPosition(20,20);
> >
> >               ren[i] -> AddActor2D(image_actor[i]);
> >               renwin->SetSize(790,630);
> >               renwin->SetPosition(222,64);
> >               renwin->AddRenderer(ren[i]);
> >       }
> >
> >       ren[0]->SetViewport(0.02 ,  0.02 ,  .3133 , .3133);
> >       ren[1]->SetViewport(.35333 ,  0.02 ,  .64667 , .3133);
> >       ren[2]->SetViewport(.68667 ,  0.02 ,  0.98, .3133);
> >       ren[3]->SetViewport(0.02,      .35333,  .31333 , .64667);
> >       ren[4]->SetViewport(.35333 ,  .35333 ,  .64667,  .64667);
> >       ren[5]->SetViewport(.68667 ,  .35333 ,   .98 ,     .64667);
> >       ren[6]->SetViewport(0.02   ,    .68667  , .31333 , .98);
> >       ren[7]->SetViewport(.35333 ,  .68667 ,  .64667 , .98);
> >       ren[8]->SetViewport(.68667,   .68667 ,   .98   ,  .98);
> >
> >       renwin->Render();
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 22:57:37 -0500, Mathieu Malaterre
> > <mathieu.malaterre at kitware.com> wrote:
> >> Kingaza
> >>
> >>> hi all, i am a new guy in vtk, now i am going to write an
> >>> visualization application, but it is difficult to read dicom file in
> >>> vtk.
> >>
> >> What do you mean 'it is difficult' ?
> >> - Does the program crash ?
> >> - The image appears black ?
> >> - Does the program hangs ?
> >>
> >> - Which DICOM reader are you using ?
> >> vtkDICOMImageReader only read non compress DICOM images.
> >> vtkGDCMReader read a lot more image, but this is not part of VTK:
> >>
> >> http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/Public/Gdcm/
> >>
> >> There might be some other option I don't know of.
> >>
> >> HTH
> >> Mathieu
> >> BTW ITK (http://www.itk.org) integrate gdcm version 0.6
> >>
> >>
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> Yan Pingkun
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