<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Richard H Lee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ricardohenrylee@hotmail.com">ricardohenrylee@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Hi guys,</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">This question gets probably asked here every week
looking at the search results on Google.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">"How do I turn my dicom scan into a
volume?"</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I have a DICOMDIR file set of several
series.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I've been looking around, but I don't really know
what to look for. The terminology is quite confusing. Do I want to "render" my
image as a volume or "register" them?</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I tried using Slicer 3D it is pretty complicated.
There seems lots of settings and methods. Is trying to create a 3D volume
something you need professional training for? I know there are various stuff you
have to take into account like patient movement etc. but I was hoping to just to
do build bog standard basic 3d volume.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Is there a basic tutorial to do this on Slicer? The
wiki seems quite complicated.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">From another thread here I saw that you coud use
dicom2 to convert dicom to raw vtk. "<a title="http://www.barre.nom.fr/medical/dicom2/how-to.html#Convert%20to%20raw
CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://www.barre.nom.fr/medical/dicom2/how-to.html#Convert%20to%20raw" target="_blank">http://www.barre.nom.fr/medical/dicom2/how-to.html#Convert%20to%20raw</a>"
But it looks as if it operates on single dicom files not series of multiple .dcm
image files.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Btw I know this is not strictly vtk, I thought
someone here would know: A lot of programs seem to prefer the single file format
for dicom. How can I convert a single series of .dcm image files into the single
dicom file format?</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I am completely new to medical imaging, so the
obligatory apologies for getting things wrong. Also I do come from an IT
background, so I can do basic coding, but I was hoping I could avoid it if
possible.</font></div>
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<div><br>Regards,</div>
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<div>Richard</div></font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><br></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do, but have you seen these examples? </div><div><a href="http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/IO/ReadDICOM">http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/IO/ReadDICOM</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/IO/ReadDICOMSeries">http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/IO/ReadDICOMSeries</a></div><div><br></div><div>You could write the output to a VTI file using:</div><a href="http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkXMLImageDataWriter.html">http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkXMLImageDataWriter.html</a></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkXMLImageDataWriter.html"></a>and then look at the results in ParaView (<a href="http://paraview.org">paraview.org</a>).<br clear="all">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">If that doesn't work, could you send us a typical data set?</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Thanks,<br><br><div>David</div></div>