[vtkusers] how to read dicom file using python?

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:23 PM, RimAY <rim.ayari at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm sorry,
> Thanks for your reply,
>
> Here is my code:
>
> import vtk
>
> reader = vtk.vtkDICOMImageReader()
> reader.SetDirectoryName('the root of my dicom files')

Works for me.

>
> and I got the following error:: vtkDICOMImageReader[015579F0]: Couldn't get
> stored files.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia :)

Did you mean 'sorted' ?

> Please could someone help me to resolve it

Implicitely vtkDICOMImageReader will only works with MR Image Storage
or CT Image Storage, as it requires Image Orientation (Patient) and
Image Position (Patient) attribute to order slices.

You could use vtkGDCMImageReader as it does not have such restriction.

http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/html/classvtkGDCMImageReader.html

2cts
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Mathieu