[vtkusers] Decompress DICOM image

David Gobbi david.gobbi at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 08:16:49 EST 2015


On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:31 AM, Ravi HM <Ravi.HM at lnttechservices.com>
wrote:

>  Hi All,
>
> I tried to read series of compressed Dicom images, since *vtkDICOMImageReader* does not support compressed data, I thought I need to Decompress selected DICOM files.
>
> If I am correct please can anyone help me how to Decompress Dicom image.
>
> Hi Ravi, I recommend using the "gdcmconv" program that comes with GDCM:

  gdcmconv --raw input.dcm output.dcm

Also, I've written a better DICOM reader for VTK that can read compressed
images:
(it uses GDCM to run the encapsulated images through the decompression
codecs.)
https://github.com/dgobbi/vtk-dicom

 - David
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