From David.Steele@usask.ca Wed Jul 10 14:01:40 1996
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Subject: Re: DICOM3_2_IDL
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From: Peter Clinch <p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 13:40:27 +0100
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Frank Besold wrote:
> 
> I am currently faced with the problem how to import MRI images from a
> Siemens-vision scanner formatted according to the DICOM3 standard into a IDL
> program for further processing. If anyone was faced with the same problem and
> can provide me with information other than the basic DICOM documentation i
> would be grateful.

The best summary I've seen so far is in the Medical Image FAQ.  Check out 

http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/by_category.medical-image-faq.html

which distills the highly elaborate DICOM system into digestible chunks.  The bi
t you
want, the image storage format, is actually quite simple, and in part 2 or 3 of 
the
FAQ at that location.

I have a C program I wrote to do this job on Siemens Impact images that runs on 
a
Sun, but which somebody else got to work okay on HPs and an SGI.  Source is at m
y
anonymous ftp site

medphys.dundee.ac.uk

login as anonymous, cd to pub, and it's called nemautil.c.  Not the greatest sof
tware
ever written, but you might find it useful as a start for your own work: feel fr
ee to
use it as you will.

Pete.
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