DICOM doesn't have a proper 3D image format defined (correct me if I'm wrong here, somebody). There are some sequence oriented approaches to packing multiple 2D images into a single dicom file, but vendor support for these images isn't that great. In short, my experience has been that you are better off converting a stack of tiffs into a stack of dicom images.
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Is it possible to convert multiple MRI slices, saved as .tiff, to one DICOM file ? Which software do I have to use?
DICOM doesn't have a proper 3D image format defined (correct me if I'm wrong here, somebody). There are some sequence oriented approaches to packing multiple 2D images into a single dicom file, but vendor support for these images isn't that great. In short, my experience has been that you are better off converting a stack of tiffs into a stack of dicom images.