Loading DICOM Volumes (1 of 4)
{"Image DocumentName": "Loading DICOM Volumes (1 of 4)", "Image ImageDescription": "Digital Imaging and COmmunications in Medicine. Slicer reads most, not all, the many DICOM flavors. From Main menu, click Data. The Data panel appears. Click Add Volume. The Props panel appears. From Properties pull-down menu, select Dicom. Click Select DICOM Volume. A dialog box appears. Select directory and click OK. Slicer searches for every DICOM file. A dialog box appears showing patient, studies, series, and files. DICOM (digital imaging and communications in medicine) is a complicated standard. Slicer is not capable of reading all flavors of it. Slicer assumes that the slices of the volume are stored in separate files, that they are not compressed, and that the header data is correct (contains the correct values of the study and the series UIDs). Slicer uses the following method to determine the correct slice order. First, it tries to find the Image Number (0x0020,0x0013) data element. If that is not present, it tries the Slice Location (0x0020,0x1041) data element. If neither data element is available, the files will be ordered as they were found, possibly not in the correct order. Also, Slicer has a restriction that the slice thickness and spacing must be the same for every slice.       In last mentioned dialog box, by default, all files of the first series of the first study of the first patient will appear.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}