DICOM concepts and implementations

Contents:

• DICOM information
• Sample images
• Introduction to DICOM
  • DICOM is messages
  • The DICOM standard
  • DICOM data format
• Defining the DICOM orientation
  • DICOM patient coordinate system
  • DICOM pixel data
  • Pixel spacing
  • DICOM voxel to patient coordinate system mapping
  • (i, j), columns, rows in DICOM
  • DICOM affines again
  • DICOM affine formula
  • Getting a 3D affine from a DICOM slice or list of slices
  • Working out the Z coordinates for a set of slices
• DICOM fields
  • Fields for ordering DICOM files into images
  • Multi-frame images
• Siemens mosaic format
  • Getting the slices from the mosaic
  • DICOM orientation for mosaic
  • Data scaling
• Siemens format DICOM with CSA header
  • CSA header
  • CSA1
  • CSA2
• SPM DICOM conversion
  • spm_dicom_dict.mat
  • spm_dicom_headers.m
  • spm_dicom_convert.m
• DICOM Tags in the NIfTI Header