sec : U Re: Can't READ_DICOM without DIALOG_PICKFILE

[andrew cool <andrew.cool(at)dsto.defence.gov.au>]

Ivan Zimine wrote:
> 
> "Emmler, Oliver" wrote:
> >
> > i try to read DICOM-Files from a directory directly under \IDL53\.. .
> > The directory name is \IDL53\radiologie\
> > The term ...
> > file = READ_DICOM(DIALOG_PICKFILE())
> >
> > ... works fine for this.
> >
> > Now i want to automate the reading of the files but with
> >
> > file = READ_DICOM(FILEPATH('MC002.dcm', SUBDIR=['radiologie']))
> 
> is 'radiologie' a subdirectory of your IDL installation directory?
> if not, you may look at ROOT_DIR keyword for FILEPATH.
> 
> or try something like
> 
> datadir = "c:\path\to\data\"
> img = read_dicom(datadir+"MC002.dcm")
> 
> --
> Ivan Zimine                   |   ivan.zimine@physics.unige.ch
> Dpt. of Radiology             |   (+41 22) 372 70 70
> Geneva University Hospitals   |


Or it might be that the DICOM file is "compressed", a format that the
IDL
DICOM routines cannot read.

You might want to use one of the free DICOM viewers to extract and save
the 
compressed JPEG image to a new file perhaps? 

I hear that RSI is releasing a new medical product later this year which
will
handle compressed DICOM files, but you'll have to fork out $$$$ for
it...

It's all a bit of a pain - I'd llike to be able to read the latest scans
of
my very own Astrocytoma via IDL, but no, not with IDL.

Andrew 

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