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LDicomDS::GetImageList

Summary

Loads the image list with frames from a Pixel Data element.

Syntax

#include "Ltdic.h"

L_UINT16 LDicomDS::GetImageList(pElement, hList, nIndex, nCount, nBitsPerPixel, uFlags)

L_UINT16 LDicomDS::GetImageList(pElement, hList, nIndex, nCount, nBitsPerPixel, uFlags, pfnCallback, pUserData)

Parameters

pDICOMELEMENT pElement

Pointer to a DICOMELEMENT structure within the Data Set.

L_UINT32 nIndex

Position of the first frame to load. Use zero-based indexing. For example, if there are 10 images in a list, the index of the last one is 9.

L_UINT32 nCount

Number of frames to load into the image list.

L_INT32 nBitsPerPixel

Resulting image pixel depth. The following are valid values:

Value	Meaning
0	Keep the original file's pixel depth (Do not convert).
1 to 8	The specified bits per pixel in the resulting image
12	12 bits per pixel in the resulting image.
16	16 bits per pixel in the resulting image
24	24 bits per pixel in the resulting image
32	32 bits per pixel in the resulting image

L_UINT uFlags

Flags which control the behavior of this function. Possible values are:

Value	Meaning
DICOM_GETIMAGE_AUTO_LOAD_OVERLAYS	[0x0001] If set, the function will automatically extract the overlays included in the dataset and add them to the loaded image.
DICOM_GETIMAGE_AUTO_APPLY_MODALITY_LUT	[0x0002] If set, the function will automatically apply the "Modality LUT" when loading the image.
DICOM_GETIMAGE_AUTO_APPLY_VOI_LUT	[0x0004] If set, the function will automatically apply the "VOI LUT" when loading the image.
DICOM_GETIMAGE_ALLOW_RANGE_EXPANSION	[0x0008] (Deprecated, do not use) If set, the function will adjust the high bit and/or low bit (if possible) inside the image handle in order to hold the range of pixel values after applying the modality LUT.
DICOM_GETIMAGE_AUTO_SCALE_MODALITY_LUT	[0x0010] If set, the function will scale the resulting pixel data to fit within the range of 0 to 2^BitsPerPixel-1 if any of the values would exceed that range.
DICOM_GETIMAGE_AUTO_SCALE_VOI_LUT	[0x0020] Only used in conjunction with DICOM_GETIMAGE_AUTO_SCALE_MODALITY_LUT. If set, the function will rescale the VOI LUT to match the rescale that was performed by DICOM_GETIMAGE_AUTO_SCALE_MODALITY_LUT.
DICOM_GETIMAGE_AUTODETECT_INVALID_RLE_COMPRESSION	[0x0040] For RLE compressed, automatically detects if the MSB and LSB segments are written in the incorrect order.
DICOM_GETIMAGE_RLE_SWAP_SEGMENTS	[0x0080] Swaps the MSB and LSB segments when loading RLE compressed data. This flag can be used to load RLE compressed data that is stored incorrectly in this manner. Use this flag only in instances where it is known that the RLE compressed data is stored incorrectly. To automatically detect/correct incorrectly stored RLE compressed data, pass the DICOM_GETIMAGE_AUTODETECT_INVALID_RLE_COMPRESSION flag instead.
DICOM_GETIMAGE_LOADCORRUPTED	[0x0100] Allow loading of corrupt JPEG images. For more information, refer to ELO_LOADCORRUPTED
DICOM_GETIMAGE_VOI_LUT_PAINT_ONLY	[0x0200] Automatically applies the "VOI LUT" when loading the image, but only for display purposes
DICOM_GETIMAGE_USE_DISK	[0x0400] Allocates the memory for loading the image using hard disk space (if possible).
DICOM_GETIMAGE_FROM_FLTLOAD	[0x8000] Internal Use Only.
DICOM_GETIMAGE_KEEP_COLOR_PALETTE	[0x10000] When Photometric Interpretation is 'PALETTE COLOR', returns a grayscale image with a color palette. Without this flag, 'PALETTE COLOR' images are converted to 24-RGB
DICOM_GETIMAGE_RESERVED1	[0x20000] Internal Use Only.

GETIMAGECALLBACK pfnCallback

Callback Function for additional processing. Use the function pointer as the value of this parameter.

The callback function must adhere to the function prototype described in the GETIMAGECALLBACK function.

L_VOID * pUserData

Void pointer that you can use to pass one or more additional parameters that the callback function needs.

To use this feature, assign a value to a variable or create a structure that contains as many fields as you need. Then, in this parameter, pass the address of that variable or structure, casting it to L_VOID *. The callback function, which receives the address in its own pUserData parameter, can cast it to a pointer of the appropriate data type to access your variable or structure. If additional parameters are not needed, you can pass NULL in this parameter.

Returns

Value	Meaning
0	SUCCESS
>0	An error occurred. Refer to Return Codes.

Comments

As an example, say you wanted to load 50 images starting with the 50th frame in the Pixel Data. Call this function with nIndex set to 49 (the 50th frame in a zero-based index) and nCount set to 50.

If pElement is NULL, you can retrieve an image list of all images within the Data Set. To do this you must call LDicomDS::GetCountImage with pElement set to NULL to determine the number of images in the Data Set and set the nCount parameter in LDicomDS::GetImageList to this value.

If DICOM_GETIMAGE_ALLOW_RANGE_EXPANSION is set in uFlags, consider the following example:

If the dataset has the following attributes:

Attribute	Value
Bits allocated	16
Bits stored	12
Pixel Range	0 - +4095

Pixel Representation is unsigned (0)

Photometric Interpretation is MONOCHROME2

Attribute	Value
Rescale Slope	1
Rescale Intercept	-1024

After applying the rescale slope and the intercept: - Output minimum pixel value = (0 * 1 +(-1024)) = -1024 - Output maximum pixel value = (4095 * 1 + (-1024)) = 3071

The new pixel value range (1024 to 3071) cant be represented with the current bits stored (12 bits), which can represent values in the range (2048 to 2048). In this case the function will change the high bit inside the image handle to be 12 instead of 11 (bits stored becomes 13), which can represent values in the range (8192 to 8191).

NOTE: This function wont be able to update the high bit and/or low bit if the number of bits stored was already equal to the number of bits allocated.

If the DICOM dataset has a Multi-frame Functional Groups module, some VOI LUT information will be read from the correspondingFrame VOI LUT Sequence, and some Modality LUT information will be read from the corresponding Pixel Value Transformation Sequence.

The specific elements that are read are shown below:

(0028,9132) Frame VOI LUT Sequence Child Elements:

Tag	Name
(0028,1050)	Window Center
(0028,1051)	Window Width
(0028,1055)	Window Center & Width Explanation

(0028,9145) Pixel Value Transformation Sequence child elements

Tag	Name
(0028,1052)	Rescale Intercept
(0028,1053)	Rescale Slope
(0028,1054)	Rescale Type

For a detailed discussion on Multi-frame Functional Groups and how the DICOM_SET_IMAGE_MFG flags are used, see the topic Multi-frame Functional Groups.

Required DLLs and Libraries

LTDIC
For a listing of the exact DLLs and Libraries needed, based on the toolkit version, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application

Platforms

Win32, x64

Example

This example fills a bitmap list with all images from the Data Set.

L_INT LDicomDS_GetImageListExample() 
 
{ 
   L_INT       nRet; 
   LDicomDS   *pDS; 
   HBITMAPLIST hList; 
 
   pDS = new LDicomDS(NULL); 
 
   nRet = pDS->LoadDS(MAKE_IMAGE_PATH(TEXT("image1.dcm")), 0); 
   if(nRet != DICOM_SUCCESS) 
      return nRet; 
 
   nRet = L_CreateBitmapList(&hList); 
   if(nRet != SUCCESS) 
      return nRet; 
 
   nRet = pDS->GetImageList(NULL, hList, 0, ELEMENT_INDEX_MAX, 0, 0); 
   if(nRet != DICOM_SUCCESS) 
      return nRet; 
 
   nRet = L_DestroyBitmapList(hList); 
   if(nRet != SUCCESS) 
      return nRet; 
 
   delete pDS; 
 
   return DICOM_SUCCESS; 
 
}