[Insight-users] DICOM orientation ?

[Mathieu Malaterre]

roxy r wrote:
> Hello all!
>  
> I would appreciate if you could help me solve the following problem :
> I am reading a set of DICOM files (folowing the example 
> ..itk\Examples\IO\DicomSeriesReadImageWrite.cxx) and is working ok. But 
> I would like to know the orientation of the files(axial, coronal , 
> sagittal) .
>  
> Does anybody know how to do this?
> 
> Thank you in advance !

Roxana,

	If you are using gdcm (Utilities/gdcm), you have access to a higher 
level function, namely:

	gdcm::Header::GetImageOrientationPatient( float iop[6] )
	(cf gdcmHeader.h in ITK 2.0)

Therefore you don't even have to know the internal of the DICOM file 
format to know where to find the image orientation patient.

HTH
Mathieu