[vtkusers] Can vtkImageMapToWindowLevelColors only output greyscale images???

[John Eke]

Hi,

I am currently calculating window-level values of an image actor from user selected brightness and contrast levels. I pass these values to vtkImageMapToWindowLevelColors::SetWindow and vtkImageMapToWindowLevelColors::SetLevel methods. The brightness and contrast works, but it always outputs a greyscale image. How can I get it to do the window-level modifications and still output a color image? (Just like in vtkImageViewer but I noticed it uses vtkImageMapper which does vtkImageMapper::SetColorWindow - is there a difference?)

Am I not setting up my lookup table properly? Not sure what the problem is.

Thanks

John E


-----Original Message-----
From: vtkusers-bounces at vtk.org on behalf of Miguel Angel Rodriguez Florido
Sent: Mon 3/16/2009 9:13 AM
To: Mathieu Malaterre
Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org
Subject: Re: [vtkusers] vtkDICOMImageReader and an extrange error,..
 
	Hi Mathieu,

	You were right. The dicom file was compressed. I have used the gdcmconv 
cmd to uncompress it.

	Thank you very much for your useful information.

	Best.

Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Did you read the documentation ?
> http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkDICOMImageReader.html
> 
> If you can read it with Slicer, this means this is a proper DICOM file
> but vtkDICOMImageReader only handles:
> 
> ...
> Warning:
>     This reader might eventually handle ACR-NEMA file (predecessor of
> the DICOM format for medical images). This reader does not handle
> encapsulated format, only plain raw file are handled. This reader also
> does not handle multi-frames DICOM datasets.
> ...
> 
> Have a look at vtkGDCMImageReader which will handle you file (I would
> bet this is a compressed data).
> 
> http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/html/classvtkGDCMImageReader.html
> 
> ref:
> http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/gdcm/index.php?title=GDCM_Release_2.0
> 
> If you cannot integrate gdcm into your project you can use gdcmconv
> --raw to decompress the image and make it compatible with
> vtkDICOMImageReader
> 
> http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/gdcm/index.php?title=Gdcmconv
> 
> 2cts


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