Tutorials

• Coordinate systems and affines
  • Introducing Someone
  • Voxel coordinates are coordinates in the image data array
  • Voxel coordinates and points in space
  • The scanner-subject reference space
    • The scanner axes
    • From scanner to subject
    • Naming reference spaces
  • Voxel coordinates are in voxel space
  • The affine matrix as a transformation between spaces
  • The inverse of the affine gives the mapping from scanner to voxel
  • The affine by example
    • Applying the affine
    • The affine as a series of transformations
  • Other reference spaces
  • Nibabel always uses an RAS+ output space
• Radiological vs neurological conventions
  • Neurological and radiological display convention
  • Alignment of world and voxel axes
  • Neurological / radiological voxel layout
• Introduction to DICOM
  • DICOM is messages
  • The DICOM standard
  • DICOM data format
    • DICOM elements
      • Attribute Tag
        • Standard attribute tags
        • Private attribute tags
      • Value Representation
      • Value length
      • Value field
    • Data element tags and data dictionaries
      • Value Representation in the data dictionary
      • Value Multiplicity in the data dictionary
    • DICOM data structures
      • A data set
      • Background - the DICOM world
      • DICOM Entities and Information Object Definitions
    • DICOM services (DIMSE)
    • DICOM service object pairs (SOPs)
    • DICOM files