DicomImageInformation Class

Summary

The DicomImageInformation class contains image information

Syntax

Objective-C

C++/CLI

Java

[SerializableAttribute()] 
public class DicomImageInformation

@interface LTDicomImageInformation : NSObject

public class DicomImageInformation

[SerializableAttribute()] 
public ref class DicomImageInformation

Remarks

For more information about image information, refer to PS 3.3 of the DICOM Standard.

Example

using Leadtools; 
using Leadtools.Dicom; 
 
 
public void TestDicomImage() 
{ 
   string dicomFileName = Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "DICOM", "image3.dcm"); 
   //Make sure to initialize the DICOM engine, this needs to be done only once  
   //In the whole application 
   DicomEngine.Startup(); 
   using (DicomDataSet ds = new DicomDataSet()) 
   { 
      //Load DICOM File 
      ds.Load(dicomFileName, DicomDataSetLoadFlags.None); 
 
      DicomElement pixelDataElement = ds.FindFirstElement(null, DicomTag.PixelData, true); 
      if (pixelDataElement == null) 
      { 
         Console.WriteLine("This dataset is missing the pixel data element", "Sample"); 
         return; 
      } 
 
      if (ds.GetImageCount(pixelDataElement) == 0) 
      { 
         Console.WriteLine("Sample: This dataset has no images"); 
         return; 
      } 
 
      DicomImageInformation imageInformation = ds.GetImageInformation(pixelDataElement, 0); 
      if (imageInformation == null) 
      { 
         Console.WriteLine("Sample: Can't retrieve image information"); 
         return; 
      } 
      // Over here we can access the different properties of the DicomImageInformation class to get some 
      // of the image attributes such as bits allocated (DicomImageInformation. BitsAllocated) 
      RasterImage image = ds.GetImage(pixelDataElement, 
         0, 
         0, 
         RasterByteOrder.Gray, 
         DicomGetImageFlags.AllowRangeExpansion | DicomGetImageFlags.AutoApplyModalityLut | DicomGetImageFlags.AutoApplyVoiLut); 
 
      if (image == null) 
      { 
         Console.WriteLine("Sample: Can't retrieve image"); 
         return; 
      } 
 
      //If the image has more than one frame then we can call DicomDataSet.GetImages to get all the frames 
      using (DicomDataSet ds1 = new DicomDataSet()) 
      { 
         ds1.Initialize(DicomClassType.DXImageStoragePresentation, DicomDataSetInitializeType.ExplicitVRLittleEndian); 
         DicomElement pixelDataElement1 = ds1.FindFirstElement(null, DicomTag.PixelData, true); 
         if (pixelDataElement1 != null) 
         { 
            ds1.SetImage(pixelDataElement1, 
               image, 
               DicomImageCompressionType.None, 
               DicomImagePhotometricInterpretationType.Monochrome2, 
               16, 
               2, 
               DicomSetImageFlags.AutoSetVoiLut); 
            //If we have more than one frame then we can call DicomDataSet.SetImages 
 
            //This is an alternative way to set the image, I will first delete the 
            //existing image and then call DicomDataSet.InsertImage 
            ds1.DeleteElement(pixelDataElement1); 
            pixelDataElement1 = ds1.InsertElement(null, false, DicomTag.PixelData, DicomVRType.UN, false, 0); 
            ds1.InsertImage(pixelDataElement1, 
               image, 
               0, 
               DicomImageCompressionType.None, 
               DicomImagePhotometricInterpretationType.Monochrome2, 
               16, 
               2, 
               DicomSetImageFlags.AutoSetVoiLut); 
            //If we have more than one frame then we can call DicomDataSet.InsertImages 
 
            ds1.Save(Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "DICOM", "Test.dcm"), DicomDataSetSaveFlags.None); 
 
         } 
      } 
      //Load DICOM File 
      ds.Load(dicomFileName, DicomDataSetLoadFlags.None); 
   } 
   DicomEngine.Shutdown(); 
} 
 
static class LEAD_VARS 
{ 
   public const string ImagesDir = @"C:\LEADTOOLS23\Resources\Images"; 
}