[Insight-users] DICOMParser

[Bill Lorensen]

Michael,
The DICOMparser class is currently being integrated into Insight. The callback facility allows you to specify your own processing for dicom tags. The DICOMImageIO2Factory represents the beginnings of the integration of the parser into insight.

We hope to complete the integration before the next release which should be in about one month.

Bill

At 07:38 PM 1/11/03 +0100, Michael Fenchel wrote:
>Hi Luis,
>
>I would like to read in several DICOM files (MR files), perform some sorting
>(e.g. ascending slice position) and then access the sorted image data and do
>some filtering, register the images and so on. After the processing I would
>like to save the files, preferably again as DICOM.
>
>Maybe you can help me a little to understand how the DICOM Parser classes in
>Insight/Utilities are used. I would very much appreciate your help.
>
>1.) What is the exact advantage of all those callbacks that have to be
>registered?
>2.) Where in the DICOMParser class is the image information stored, an how
>can I easily access it? How can I access the individual tags of the header?
>is it possible to access them via the name (e.g. 'slice position')?
>3.) What is the use of the class DICOMAppHelper? Does it provide some higher
>level functionality?
>
>The DICOMApp (example program) uses the classes DICOMImageIO2Factory and
>DICOMImageIO2 together with the class  ImageFileReader (However, it does not
>use the function SetImageIO(DICOMImageIO2* dicomimage). How does the reader
>know its a DICOM image?).
>4.) Do those classes use DICOMParser implicitly?
>
>5.) Does ITK provide some functionality to save the processed images as
>DICOM again. This means including the header not just the raw data?
>
>Thanks again,
>
>best wishes
>Michael
>
>
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