[vtkusers] are VHD CT files DICOM formatted?

[Veerapuram Varadhan]

Hi Tao,

If I am not wrong, CT data can be in DICOM or XIM or IPDE formats.  It
is depend upon the instrument that generates/converts it.

V. Varadhan.

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 00:34:07 -0500, Tao Wang <twusa at hotmail.com> wrote:
> hi everyone,
> 
> I am sorry I have another "stupid" question. what's the format of those CT
> (and MRI) images in the visible human dataset. All I learned is that they
> are 512x512 12-bit gray tone images. For this 12-bit, what is the data type?
> I mean, a float-point, or an int, or something else? Are these files DICOM
> files which can be read by vtkDICOMImageReader? if they are not, then what
> kind of reader should I use to read in these image data.
> 
> many thanks,
> 
> Tao
> 
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