[vtkusers] vtkDICOMImageReader results,..

[Jesse Cronce]

You may wish to try the gdcm toolkit, located here

http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/Public/Gdcm/Main.html

I'm not sure if this will work for you or not, but I've been using the 
package the past couple of weeks and am pretty happy with it.

HTH

Jesse C Cronce

Staff Programmer for the MRCTR, Dept. of Radiology

412-647-6709

B804 Presby. Univ. Hospital
200 Lothrop St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213



Miguel Angel Rodriguez Florido wrote:
> 	Dear friends,
> 	
> 	Today is the first time that I have used the vtkDICOMReader, however
> the results are not apparently good.
>
> 	First I have used the vtkDICOMImageReader directly:
>
> vtkDICOMImageReader v16
>     v16 SetDirectoryName <path to data>
>
> 	In this directory I have files following the pattern: DCT00*.dcm, but I
> got the result that you can see in the attached figure. I'm using
> vtkImagePlaneWidget and I can see data in 3D but with the same aspect,
> while the greyscale values seem good if I check it with a picker on the
> image.
>
> 	First, I thought that vtkDicomReader is not getting well the image
> parameters, although the grayscale values and dimensions were apparently
> well. So, I force the parameters:
>
>     v16 SetDataSpacing 0.206 0.206 0.206
>     v16 SetDataOrigin 0 0 0.206
>     v16 SetDataExtent 0 608 0 608 0 320
>     v16 SetDataScalarTypeToShort
>     v16 SetDataByteOrderToLittleEndian
> 	
> but I'm getting the same bad result.
>
> 	I don't have previous experience with the DicomReader. I can read and
> see it well under ITKReader, but not under VTK. I've tried to read
> different dicom datasets, and read the documentation but I got the same
> result.
>
> 	Do I do something wrong?.
> 	Is there any detail that I've to take in account?.
> 	In general, any idea?.
>
> 	Thank you very much in advance.
>
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