[vtkusers] are VHD CT files DICOM formatted?

Jeremy Winston jbw at ieee.org
Sat Jul 17 09:04:52 EDT 2004


Veerapuram Varadhan wrote:
 >On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 00:34:07 -0500, Tao Wang <twusa at hotmail.com> wrote:
 >>[...]
 >>what's the format of those [...] images in the visible human dataset.
 >>[...] what kind of reader should I use to read in these image data.
 >
 > 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.

You're right, but that's not what he was asking.

The Visible Human datasets are in GE's Signa format, so
you should use vtkGESignaReader to read them.

HTH,
-Jeremy



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