ExtractOneFrame.cs

/*=========================================================================
 
  Program: GDCM (Grassroots DICOM). A DICOM library
 
  Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Mathieu Malaterre
  All rights reserved.
  See Copyright.txt or http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/Copyright.html for details.
 
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     the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
     PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notice for more information.
 
=========================================================================*/
 
/*
 * This small code shows how to use the gdcm.StreamImageReader API
 * to read a single (whole) frame at a time
 * The API allow extracting a smaller extent of the frame of course.
 * It will write out the extracted frame in /tmp/frame.raw
 *
 * Usage:
 * $ bin/ExtractOneFrame.exe input.dcm
 */
using System;
using gdcm;
 
public class ExtractOneFrame
{
  public static int Main(string[] args)
    {
    string filename = args[0];
 
    gdcm.StreamImageReader reader = new gdcm.StreamImageReader();
 
    reader.SetFileName( filename );
 
    if (!reader.ReadImageInformation()) return 1;
    // Get file infos
    gdcm.File f = reader.GetFile();
 
    // get some info about image
    UIntArrayType extent = ImageHelper.GetDimensionsValue(f);
    //System.Console.WriteLine( extent[0] );
    uint dimx = extent[0];
    //System.Console.WriteLine( extent[1] );
    uint dimy = extent[1];
    //System.Console.WriteLine( extent[2] );
    uint dimz = extent[2];
    PixelFormat pf = ImageHelper.GetPixelFormatValue (f);
    int pixelsize = pf.GetPixelSize();
    //System.Console.WriteLine( pixelsize );
 
    // buffer to get the pixels
    byte[] buffer = new byte[ dimx * dimy * pixelsize ];
 
    for (int i = 0; i < dimz; i++)
      {
      // Define that I want the image 0, full size (dimx x dimy pixels)
      reader.DefinePixelExtent(0, (ushort)dimx, 0, (ushort)dimy, (ushort)i, (ushort)(i+1));
      uint buf_len = reader.DefineProperBufferLength(); // take into account pixel size
      //System.Console.WriteLine( buf_len );
      if( buf_len > buffer.Length )
        {
        throw new Exception("buffer is too small for target");
        }
 
      if (reader.Read(buffer, (uint)buffer.Length))
        {
        using (System.IO.Stream stream =
          System.IO.File.Open(@"/tmp/frame.raw",
            System.IO.FileMode.Create))
          {
          System.IO.BinaryWriter writer = new System.IO.BinaryWriter(stream);
          writer.Write(buffer);
          }
        }
      else
        {
        throw new Exception("can't read pixels error");
        }
      }
 
    return 0;
    }
}