Hello, I suspect RadiAnt to be the viewer I will need to view our CT images of circuit boards we are building; but I can't make it rotate / scalpel; it stays in 2D mode with the 3D button dimmed out. We need to be able to view the solder voids in 3D to determine how to adjust our manufacturing process.

I get raw files from the CT and use gdcmimg to create a dcm file but I suspect the program isn't writing headers in a way that RadiAnt sees it is a volumetric file.

Is there anything I can tweak in the dcm creation process or in RadiAnt?

A much simpler dcm viewer does view the slices and creates a 3D image but it doesn't have all the features RadiAnt does.

Thanks,
Mike

Mike,

Thank you for providing the sample files.
They were missing spatial information necessary for RadiAnt to run series in 3D viewers.

Sample values are shown below:

(0020,0032) DS -101.700\-172.600\-130.500 # 3, 26 Image Position (Patient)
(0020,0037) DS 1.0\0.0\0.0\0.0\1.0\0.0 # 6, 54 Image Orientation (Patient)
(0028,0030) DS 0.488281\0.488281 # 2, 18 Pixel Spacing

Here is the complete minimal list I needed to get it to work:

0002,0000 File Meta Information Group Leng UL 1 14
0002,0001 File Meta Information Version OB 1 00 01
0008,0016 SOP Class UID UI 1 1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.7.2
0020,000D Study Instance UID UI 1 1.2.826.0.1.3680043.2.1143.878...(64 Bytes)
0020,0032 Image Position (Patient) DS 3 0.0\0.0\-1.0
0020,0037 Image Orientation (Patient) DS 6 1.000000\0.000000\0.000000\0.0...(54 Bytes)
0028,0002 Samples per Pixel US 1 1
0028,0004 Photometric Interpretation CS 1 MONOCHROME2
0028,0010 Rows US 1 1646
0028,0011 Columns US 1 1661
0028,0030 Pixel Spacing DS 2 1.0\1.0
0028,0100 Bits Allocated US 1 8
0028,0101 Bits Stored US 1 8
0028,0102 High Bit US 1 7
0028,0103 Pixel Representation US 1 0
7FE0,0010 Pixel Data OB 1 49 49 47 46 45 46 49 4D 4C 47 ...(2734006 Bytes)