[Insight-developers] gdcm issues again

[David Channin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Channin, David (NMH)
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 3:30 PM
> To: 'Lorensen, William E (GE, Research)'; 'Mathieu Malaterre'
> Cc: 'ITK'
> Subject: RE: [Insight-developers] gdcm issues again
> 
> Just a couple comments from a lurker...
> 
> From the DICOM Standard, Part 3:
>    A.8 SECONDARY CAPTURE IMAGE INFORMATION OBJECT DEFINITION
>       The Secondary Capture (SC) Image Information Object Definition
(IOD)
> specifies images that are converted from a non-DICOM format to a
modality
> independent DICOM format. Examples of types of equipment that create
> Secondary Capture Images include:
>       a. Video interfaces that convert an analog video signal into a
> digital image
>       b. Digital interfaces that are commonly used to transfer
non-DICOM
> digital images from an
> imaging device to a laser printer
>       c. Film digitizers that convert an analog film image to digital
data
>       d. Workstations that construct images that are sent out as a
screen
> dump
>       e. Scanned documents and other bitmap images including
hand-drawings
>       f. Synthesized images that are not modality-specific, such as
cine-
> loops of 3D reconstructions
> 
> 
> I think the AW is behaving correctly in that SC are "modality
> independent", thus I don't think they have enough info to do
volumetric.
> 
> I think you want to make sure your dataset (I am not quite clear on
what
> dataset you are talking about)is in a modality specific IOD.
> 
> Dsc
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:
insight-developers-bounces+dsc=radiology.northwestern.edu at itk.org
> > [mailto:insight-developers-
> bounces+dsc=radiology.northwestern.edu at itk.org]
> > On Behalf Of Lorensen, William E (GE, Research)
> > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 3:10 PM
> > To: Mathieu Malaterre
> > Cc: ITK
> > Subject: [Insight-developers] gdcm issues again
> >
> > Mathieu,
> >
> > When 0002|0002 and 0008|0016 are set to secondary capture, the
Advantage
> > Windows system does treat the data as volumetric data. For example,
I
> > cannot volume render it.
> >
> > I had to comment out the sets of these tags in gdcmFileHelper to get
the
> > A/W to behanve properly.
> >
> > Secondary capture seems to have special meaning. Can you remove
their
> > settings in gdcmFileHelper or provide a method to optionally include
> them?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bill
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