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| Re: DICOM Radiotherapy prescriptions [message #45221] |
Sun, 21 August 2005 16:52 |
Robert Barnett
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Registered: May 2004
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There are three levels of DICOM support provided by RSI:
1) A basic DICOM file parser which comes with the IDL distribution
2) An extended DICOM module for parsing, editing and creating DICOM
files.
3) An extended DICOM module for sending and receving files from DICOM
nodes.
Try downloading the IDL 6.1 help files from ftp://ftp.rsinc.com and
have a browse through the API looking at the 'IDLffDICOM' and
'IDLffDICOMex' objects. I would recommend trying the basic DICOM file
parser first, which can be used in IDL's 7 minute demo mode.
If you need to get the prescriptions off the server using
Query/Retrieve then you may need to buy the DICOM network services
module. However, I have never had a problem spawning a shell to do the
job for me. I would just use 'findscu' from the DCMTK project
(http://www.dcmtk.org/). You could also run them as shared objects to
avoid the overhead of a shell process. I have compiled them for Solaris
and Linux if you want to pester me for them.
> O r would I need to parse the DICOM myself?
As far as I know, the DICOM parser is very generic and is not an easily
accessible object structure. To put it simply, you are expected to know
the tags which you want to extract.
I would be really keen to hear if the DICOM parser is able to read
radiotherapy data.
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