Re: 12 bit jpeg [message #65107 is a reply to message #65035] |
Tue, 10 February 2009 10:37  |
ben.bighair
Messages: 221 Registered: April 2007
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On Feb 10, 1:19 pm, dktr....@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks Robbie. I agree in principle with your suggestion of getting
> the dicom files in uncompressed form, the trick here is teaching less-
> tech savvy collaborators how to properly export their data and send it
> to me. ;) I will look into dcmtk.
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> On Feb 10, 2:43 am, Robbie <ret...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
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>> I would recommend just using dcmtk (www.dcmtk.org) to convert your
>> images. It will probably be faster than anything written in IDL.
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>> In any case, it is part of the DICOM standard that an application
>> entity (DICOM node) should support uncompressed transmission of
>> images. Thus, theoretically you should be able to receive the file in
>> uncompressed form. This is the part where I rant about that DICOM is
>> not a file-format, it is a network protocol blah-blah-blah.
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>> Robbie
Hi,
I am not sure if it would help in your case, but Karsten Rodenacker
has written the code required to use the Bio-Formats image reader from
Loci. I know that Bio-Formats reads Dicom, but I am not so sure about
the 12-bit stuff. It would be worth checking out...
http://www.loci.wisc.edu/ome/formats-idl.html
Cheers,
ben
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