[Insight-users] Problem getting data type for DICOM files

[Bill Lorensen]

Do you really need the data type. The reader will produce whatever type you 
ask for.

Bill

At 07:16 PM 2/5/2004, Jenny Simpson wrote:
>It seems like there is a "loop 22" problem with reading DICOM files.  If I
>don't know the data type of the pixel data up front, I have a problem.
>The problem is that I can't declare an itk::ImageFileReader without first
>knowing the pixel type.  But I can't find out the pixel type until I've
>declared a reader and read in the data.  So it's a circular problem.
>I need to be able to determine the data type at run time.  What is the
>solution?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jenny Simpson
>Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
>University of Utah
>
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