Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
> > First, I really hope that the "possible problems" John mentioned are not to
> > serious. "Some CT" indicates a certain seriousness, I hope the best for you.
>
> Thanks!
>
> It looked serious for a while but currently everything seems fine.
>
> > My first thought was, if it is more easy to convert the data to df3. I got the
> > impression that DICOM is not so far away from df3, after ripping off the
> > metadata. Seems to be big-endian too. May be one can exchange the headers of the
> > voxel bulk and get a df3 file. I don't know, only an idea.
>
> Yes df3 would have been an option. Using the image stack was simply
> the way of least resistance (least work for me at the moment) and it
> renders quite fast too.
>
> > The picture is fine but hard to interpret in some areas. If I look at the bottom
> > of the image I think I'm looking at your back in an upward direction. If I look
> > at the scapula and the clavicula only, I cannot tell apart what is in front and
> > what is back. Both are dominated by the green lung in large parts.
>
> It is a front view but difficult to tell with this "transparent
> data. In fact the back view can be recognized by the scan bed that
> is also included in the data.
>
> > As you speak from publishing your data I can only remind you that DICOM files
> > contain medical metadata, which you will strip off first most likely
>
> I think that was a misunderstanding, I did not intend to publish
> the DICOM files or derived data sets. I think the render itself is
> not so problematic and unsuitable for medical diagnostics. Also it
> is a clean scan and should only serve to show off my health ;)

I really like to read this. If I misunderstood your sentence about a DVD
distribution please forgive me. In a way Jaime is right and not. In Germany a
lot of radiologists are giving away the data together with an application to
view the data to their patients. They ask their patients if they will have it,
you must not ask them to can render the data. I had to judge several scans from
my mother's severe osteoporosis. For some reason she relies more on my amateur
opinion than on the practitioners. I have worked for some 15 years as a male
nurse mainly in oncology so I have the one or other experience with CT data but
I'm far away from being an expert.

Best regards,
Michael

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