[Insight-developers] Has anyone written synthetic DICOM series

[Bill Lorensen]

There is a Slicer CLI that I wrote a few tears ago. It is called
CreateDICOMSeries.




On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Williams, Norman K <
norman-k-williams at uiowa.edu> wrote:

> I found a really bad bug in the DCMTK reader.  When I wrote it, I got rows
> & columns mixed up in assigning image dimensions.  Until now no one had
> ever run into it because either they never use DICOM files, or they only
> use DICOM series with square slices.
>
> I've spent a couple of hours trying to write a test for this, that would
> write a DICOM series of non-square slices.  Turns out it's not that easy
> -- the DCMTK reader depends on DICOM tags to be in the DICOM file in order
> to read them in successfully, and the DICOM writer (GDCM) I have access to
> doesn't fill them out properly.
>
> I can simply use some anonymized real-world data to do this, but it's
> disconcerting we can write files that aren't actually readable. Is there
> some trick to this that I'm missing?
>
> Looking at the GDCM tests, there are places they write GDCM files, but
> they actually read a DICOM file first and copy the MetaDataDictionary onto
> the output in order to get the flags in.
> --
> Kent Williams norman-k-williams at uiowa.edu
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