[vtkusers] change .raw to .dicom

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Marc Cotran wrote:
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> Subject:
> Re: [vtkusers] change .raw to .dicom
> From:
> Marc Cotran <marc at cotran.ca>
> Date:
> Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:36:30 -0500
> To:
> Gina Yan <zhengina27 at hotmail.com>
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> To:
> Gina Yan <zhengina27 at hotmail.com>
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> Gina Yan wrote:
>> Hello,
>>  
>> I'm trying to convert .raw files to .dicom. Could anyone tell me if 
>> VTK can do that? Thanks a lot!
> Hi Gina,
> 
> You'd have better luck using ITK for that (www.itk.org). Take a look at 
> the examples in the IO folder. I don't believe VTK has a writer for 
> DICOM files, but someone out there may have one...


Using VTK to convert a pseudo-RAW file to DICOM seems a bit overkill but 
anyway you can have a look at GDCM it comes with a VTK wrapper so you 
could read the pseudo-RAW file with vtkImageReader and write it with 
vtkGdcmWriter to produce a DICOM file.

HTH
Mathieu
Ref:
http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/Public/Gdcm/