[vtkusers] Hounsfield Units of Human body part

[John Drescher]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Chasan KIOUTSOUKMOUSTAFA
<chasank at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> HUofAir = (double)(reader->GetPixelRepresentation() * reader->GetRescaleSlope()) + (double) reader->GetRescaleOffset();
> // HuofAir represents -1000 HU
> HUofBone = HUofAir + 2250.0;  // 1250 HU for Bone
> HUofMuscle = HUofAir + 1050.0; // 50 HU for Muscle
> HUofFat = HUofAir + 880; // -120 HU for Fat
>

How are you reading your images? They already should be in Hounsfield
( no no calculation is needed) if you use the vtk image readers and
use signed short images.

John