[vtkusers] Problem in Read Dicom Series

David Gobbi david.gobbi at gmail.com
Sat Jul 20 15:18:54 EDT 2013


VTK has a TIF reader (vtkTIFFReader).  Why not just use that?

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Marco Sambin <m.sambin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Vachik,
>
> well, I'm not sure how you converted TIF to DICOM, but I guess you generated
> Secondary Capture DICOM files which do not contain Image Position, Image
> Orientation and Pixel Spacing data elements (since this info is absent in
> your source TIF image files).
>
> Hence, the reader cannot generate a correct volume without knowing those
> data.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Marco
>
> Il giorno 20/lug/2013 20:59, "Vachik Dave" <vsdave at umail.iu.edu> ha scritto:
>>
>> I need to read 99 image slices of .tif format. but I found this option
>> with dicom files.
>> So I converted my .tif files into .dcm file using Matlab.
>>
>> I am using example available at
>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/IO/ReadDICOMSeries
>> Now my problem is that the same project working for other Dicom folder is
>> not working for my Matlab generated files.
>> It shows only one slice as a result.
>>
>> Any clue, what is wrong and how can I make it work?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> --Vachik



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