V3-Tutorial

Dicom

The $V^3$ volume renderer supports the import of traditional medical Dicom files. For that purpose, it needs to be compiled with support for the Dicom Offis (DCMTK) package. See the README how to do that.

Then we view Dicom data in the following way:

  • On the clinical data server, export a volume to be viewed as Dicom files.
  • This yields a series of files that contain the volume slices stored in the Dicom file format.
    • The files usually end with .ima (or .dcm).
    • The files can have cryptic names like
      • 1.3.12.2.1107.5.1.4.53004.30020007030107350023200001462.dcm
      • This means the file is image #1462 of the scanned series.
  • You can import those files into the volume renderer by navigating to the data directory on the command line. Then type: 
v3 “*.ima”

You can also convert the Dicom files to a PVM volume 

v3 “*.ima” -of=volume.pvm

and visualize the PVM volume: 

v3 volume.pvm

Enjoy!

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