[Insight-users] How can I build a dicom serie from separeted bmps?

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Bruno Barcellos wrote:
> How can I build a dicom serie from a separated .BMP snapshot images 
> using ITK? I have converted each .BMP to DICOM separately, acrescenting 
> to the headers of the generated DICOMS informations from the DICOM 
> headers that originated the .BMPS. But some tags cannot be changed, e.g. 
> (0002|0003) and (0008|0018). Are there some tags that I can modify to 
> explicity that the separated DICOM slices compose the same serie?


Bruno,

	You need to read the BMP series as a series (in proper order!) and 
write it as a DICOM series. But before you save the image you need either:

1. To set the spacing (x,y,z), you need to set the direction cosines (I 
guess the default should be ok). And then write it using ITK CVS.

2. Set a proper metadatadictionary that would contain the Image Position 
(Patient) (and Image Orientation (Patient)) for each individual slice.

I believe there are example for both in ITK.

HTH
Mathieu
Ps: Do not modify anything from group 0002, please.