Re: [vmtk-users] Problems opening DICOM image sequence

[Luca A. <luc...@or...>]

Hi Giuseppe,
 can you copy and paste the output you get on the terminal when the pipe is running?
Thanks

Luca


On Oct 12, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Giuseppe Isu wrote:

> Hi Luca,
> 
> first of all thank you for your prompt response. 
> 
> I start from the beginning with the explaination of the problem. 
> I have two different directories of MR dicom images and both of them refer to the same patient. I reckoned that the difference between them is the time of relaxation because the directories are named respectively T1 and T2. 
> Within T1 there's a sequence of images named as follows:
> 
> MR010001001.dcm, MR011001001.dcm, MR012001001.dcm, ...., MR039001001.dcm
> 
> for a total of 30 images.
> Within T2 there are only 5 images named as above starting by MR039001001.dcm to MR043001001.dcm.
> When I tryed to open the sequence for the first time I copied T1 directory within the vmtk folder and ran the command
> 
> vmtkimagereader -f dicom -d T1 --pipe vmtkimageviewer
> 
> and like I said in the previous mail only the first image named MR010001001.dcm opened. 
> I tryed to do what you suggested on a Unix platform
> I wrote 
> 
> vmtkimagereader -ifile MR010001001.dcm --pipe vmtkimageviewer
> 
> and the result is the same. The only image opened is this one.
> 
> Now I think the problem could be clearer to you. I hope what I wrote is enough to find a solution.
> 
> Thank you in advance
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2011/10/12 Luca Antiga <luc...@or...>
> Hi Giuseppe,
>  welcome to vmtk. There shouldn't be any difference between Windows and Unix-like.
> 
> Can you please post the exact command you are running (not the reference, as you did, but the actual command with the paths)?
> 
> Also, you may want to try the following: 
> vmtkimagereader -ifile first_file_in_the_series.dcm --pipe vmtkimageviewer
> 
> It is also possible that your MR dicom directory contains more than one series, so you'll need to separate them beforehands. Just try the above and we'll move from there.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> 
> Luca
> 
> 
> On Oct 11, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Giuseppe Isu wrote:
> 
>> Hi everybody,
>> I'm Giuseppe. I'm new to vmtk. Recently I've started to get into it and I've done all the tutorials. I'm now dealing with a project for which I need to open a sequence of MR DICOM images in order to reconstruct a carotid geometry. I use vmtk on a win32 platform and I've already used vmtk to perform meshes and computing centerlines successfully.
>> Using the command 
>> vmtkimagereader -f dicom -d "directory_path *" --pipe vmtkimageviewer
>> where directory_path is my files directory located within the vmtk main directory.
>> When I write this command only the first image of the sequence is opened but I can't understand which is the problem. 
>> Can you give me some tips? Should I try to open these files on a Unix platform?
>> Best regards 
>> -- 
>> Giuseppe 
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