LabVIEW
DICOM conversion
Hi,
I jut want to simply read and display DICOM files through LabVIEW. Our X-Ray just do the 2D images so no 3D reconstruction needed. I've read former posts but I still have a lot of questions. I use LAbVIEW 2011 and have run-time 2011 and vision development module.
There's a pack of DICOM examples but it needs DICOMObject which is not free. Then I turned to the Biomedical Startup Kit source code version. It can load image from DICOM to array, which can be read by LabVIEW. After that, the image I want need to be extracted and leaving unwanted information such as patient ID aside. However, DICOM format structure (shown below) is complicated. I don't know which specific arrays in the matrix represent tag (includes patient ID and names etc) and I don't know how to extract these unwanted information out to display the image that LabVIEW can accept.
Some articles I read say it needs mirroring transformation and gray mapping to convert DICOM to Bmp. But, can I simply do these two part work to realize the conversion without considering the big structure difference between the two formats?
Any suggestion will be appreciated.
Many thanks!
Olivia
