[Insight-users] Reagarding reading a 4D volume using itk imageseriesreader

[Sachin Jambawalikar]

Hi all,

I have a class derived from itkDicomseriesfilenames

which has a function GetFileName4D which sorts the filenames and
groups them based on acquisition time.

const std::vector<std::vector<std::string> > &GetFileName4D(const
std::string &seriesUID, bool recursive =false);

I wanted to know  how to use itk::ImageseriesReader to read in the 4D volume.

as its   
 void SetFileNames (const std::vector<std::string> &name)  
take only a vector of strings rather than 2D vector of strings.

I can do it the longer way with passing the names of one group at a
time and then copying the reader->get_output to a  4D volume.
is this the only way or is there something better.

Regards

--Sachin





On Tue, 18 May 2004 11:55:49 -0400, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Sachin,
> 
> Reading DICOM slices into a single dataset
> requires the use of two ITK classes:
> 
>    A) SeriesNamesGenerator
>    B) ImageSeriesReader
> 
> The ImagerSeriesReader is N-Dimensional and
> will not have any difficulty reading your
> 4D data set.
> 
> The trick will be related to the SeriesNames
> generator. This filter should create a list
> of file names *in order* that represent the
> successive dimensions of your data sets.
> 
> In your case, this class should generate
> filenames where all the slices for a
> certain timestamp are grouped togeheter.
> Make sure that they are ordered by acquisition
> time, and then inside the group of each
> timestamp make sure theat the slices are in
> spatial order.
> 
> We don't have such a SeriesNamesGenerator
> at this point, but you probably can create
> it with a medium effort by modifying the
> existing  DICOMSeriesFileNames class
> 
> http://www.itk.org/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DICOMSeriesFileNames.html
> 
> BTW we will be happy to include the modified
> version back in to the toolkit     :-)
> 
> Please let us know if you need any help in
> performing such modifications.
> 
>    Thanks
> 
>      Luis
> 
> --
> 
> As a help in the process you may want to look at the
> application MRIConvert developed by Jolinda Smith. This
> app has recently been adapted to manage time series.
> you will find the binaries of this application at
> 
>   http://lcni.uoregon.edu/~jolinda/MRIConvert
> 
> --------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> Sachin Jambawalikar wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > Is it possible to read in 4D dicom series  using the dicom series IO.
> > Does the dicom reader support  reading 4D data  of a series in a 4D itk  Image .
> > Can anybody help ??
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > --Sachin
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