[Insight-developers] Re: [Insight-users] load a CT scan (DICOM)

[Luis Ibanez]

Oops,  my mistake.

You are right. The reading of the slices is done directly by
the metaImage code in Insight/Utilities/MetaIO/metaImage.cxx.

The reader is visiting every slice (every file) on the LIST,
skipping the Dicom header and getting the binary data directly
from the end of the file.

The header information from the dicom files is not used at all.
Dimensions and spacing are obtained from the MetaImage Header.



    Luis


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Miller, James V (Research) wrote:

> What?
> 
> Where does the MetaImageIO delegate to the DicomImageIO?  I do not see any
> references to the DicomImageIO in the MetaImageIO class.
> 
> If the MetaImageIO delegates to the DicomImageIO, then why do we need 
> (all the information) in the MetaImageIO headers?  All of that information
> is in the DICOM file.
> 
> Jim
>