Tutorial: DICOM Import

The standard format for medical images is DICOM. This part of the tutorial assumes that you have access to a DICOM data set containing at least one volume. A volume is, in DICOM terms, a series consisting of several 2D images arranged in a 3D grid. Such a volume can be imported.

• Open the DICOM Widget
  • Main Menu -> Window -> Utility -> DICOM
• Move and enlarge the widget if necessary.
• Press the Open button and select a DICOM folder. All DICOM data inside this folder and subfolders will now be imported into the widget, but not into CustusX itself.
• Select a series containing a volume.
  • Optionally use the Images column to check if a particular series contains enough images to count as a volume.
  • Optionally use the preview to inspect the images.
  • Optionally use theView button to inspect the raw DICOM tags.
• Press the Import button to import the selected series into CustusX as a volume.
• Display the volume in the views to verify that the import succeeded.

DICOM Widget