[vtkusers] Pixel Values

[brunos at lncc.br]

Hi,

I´m a new VTK user and I want to access image pixels. For this purpose I´m using
the code below:

	vtkDICOMImageReader *reader = vtkDICOMImageReader::New();
	reader->SetFileName("c:/temp/DICOM/DICOM55.dcm");
	reader->Update();

	short *Pixels;
	int i;

	Pixels = (short *) reader->GetOutput()->GetScalarPointer();

	FILE *fp = fopen("c:/temp/pixels.txt","w");

	for(i=0; i < 512*512; i++)
	{
		fprintf(fp, "%d ", *Pixels++);
	}

	fclose(fp);

	return 0;



However, the files generated by this code, contain values above 255 and below
0. For example -2048, 543, 1020 -1028.
Is it correct?
Is there some different standard to pixels representation in VTK ?
Or is there other way to access pixels values ?

Thanks.





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