Simple dicom viewer.
gdcmviewer [options] file-in
The gdcmviewer is a simple tool that show how to use vtkGDCMImageReader. The class that use gdcm to make a layer to VTK. gdcmviewer is basically only just a wrapper around VTK/GDCM.
This tool is meant for testing integration of GDCM in VTK. You should see it as a demo tool. It does compile with VTK ranging from 4.2 to 5.10, but only with VTK 5.2 (or above) can play with the widgets (as described below).
file-in DICOM input filename
--force-rescale force rescale (advanced users)
--force-spacing force spacing (advanced users)
-r --recursive Recusively descend directory
-h --help
print this help text and exit
-v --version
print version information and exit
-V --verbose
verbose mode (warning+error).
-W --warning
warning mode, print warning information
-E --error
error mode, print error information
-D --debug
debug mode, print debug information
For now gdcmviewer should be started from a command line prompt. The next argument should be the name of the DICOM file you wish to read. For instance:
$ gdcmviewer -V 012345.002.050.dcm
gdcmviewer will try to read your file, and then print the vtk information associated with this file. Basically what kind of image you are looking at.
ScalarType is the DICOM Real World Value type
Dimensions is the dimension of the image
Spacing is the spacing of the image
NumberOfScalarComponents should be 1 for grayscale & PALETTE COLOR and 3 for RGB, YBR data.
The wiki page, with color pictures can be found at: http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Gdcmviewer
Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Mathieu Malaterre