[ITK] Writing a 3D image into DICOM series with correct geometry

[Francois Budin]

Hello Fijoy,

As far as I know this example is the best way to do what you are trying to
do. ITK does not currently have an easy way to save an itk::Image as a
DICOM series.
Thanks,

Francois

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Fijoy Vadakkumpadan <tofijoy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> What is the best way to write a 3D itk::Image to DICOM series in a way
> that preserves geometry metadata (slice positions, orientation, and
> spacing)?
>
> The itk::Image I'm referring to is coming from a non-DICOM source. I tried
> to use itk::ImageSeriesWriter with itk::GDCMImageIO as the IO type to do
> the above writing. But that does not seem to automatically pick up the
> metadata from the image object - when I read the written series back (using
> itk::ImageSeriesReader), only the in-plane spacing is correctly set. After
> some research, I found this example
>
> https://itk.org/Wiki/ITK/Examples/DICOM/ResampleDICOM
>
> which explicitly sets the metadata dictionary for each slice before
> writing. Is this the best way?
>
> Thanks,
> --Fijoy
>
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