Saturday, June 30, 2012

Convert DICOM to Bitmap in 3 lines of code

In an earlier post I covered how to convert JPEG to DICOM and also PDF and Bitmap to DICOM. In this very short post I'm going to show the opposite direction, which is much simpler,  converting DICOM to Bitmap.
With MODALIZER-SDK this is very simple. Here's the C# code:


            DCXIMG img = new DCXIMG();
            img.LoadFile(dcmfile.Text);
            img.SaveBitmap(0, bmpFile.Text);


dcmfile and bmpFile in this example are text boxes.
SaveBitmap first parameter is the frame number (0 based index) as a DICOM file may have many frames in it.
The DCXIMG class takes care of all conversions and decoding of the image if the pixel data in the DICOM file is compressed.
That's it on this subject. Comments and questions are most welcome.