[vtkusers] vtk4.4 DICOM

[Jeremy Winston]

Day, Robert wrote:
> Jeremy Winston wrote:
> > [...]
> > the Siemens [DICOM] software seems to pick file names
> > out of the air -- i.e., they're not ordered in any
> > obvious way.
> 
> This is, of course, the correct way for a DICOM implementation
> to work. The standard explicitly states that file names are not
> to be parsed for any information about the data set.
> That should always be parsed out of the relevant tags in the file.

<Johny Carson>  I did not know that.  </Johnny Carson>

> Of course, I always number mine by slice number anyway ;-)
> dicom2 <www.barre.nom.fr/medical/dicom2/> is the canonical way to do this, IMHO.

Ah, excellent.  Thx for the link.

-Jeremy