Understanding DICOM image attributes to get axial/coronal/sagittal cuts

Question

I have to write a program in c# able to parse DICOM and display axial, coronal and sagittal cuts.

Seems like it\'s a lot of work, but I have to do it so !

Big fi

Answer 1

This question is already 3 y.o., but maybe my answer will be helpful for somebody.

@user6867490 has already referenced to the beautiful article by Roni Zaharia.

The only thing that I would like to add is: you can simply get access to the Image Orientation (Patient), Tag (0020,0037) by writing

f = dicom.read_file(dicom_file_name)
f.ImageOrientationPatient

If you'll obtain:

['1', '0', '0', '0', '0', '-1'] you are dealing with Coronal plane view

['0', '1', '0', '0', '0', '-1'] you are dealing with Sagittal plane view

['1', '0', '0', '0', '1', '0'] you are dealing with Axial plane view

In my case, there was a dataset containing a few images of Sagittal and lots of Axial views (which I needed actually). So, I simply iterated through the whole dataset and did a simple logical comparison to filter out all the saggitals.