Acquiring and converting a video ultrasound video file into DICOM

[lucsappia]

Hi, my nameis Luciano and I have to acquire a video file from an ultrasound and then properly convert it into a DICOM file. I would like to know if anyone could help me or give me an advice in this issue.

The acquiring part is done, I have embebed Microsoft AMcap to generate an AVI file, but I have doubts about the tools I could use in the conversion to DICOM.

Thanks in advance

[ZJ.Gu]

Hey,

The current Biomedical Startup Kit could load the image from DICOM but not write DICOM. It is on our feature list.  Could you please tell more about how large the image is?

Thanks!

ZJ Gu

[lucsappia]

Hello ZJ Gu

I´ve been doing some searching, and I´ve found the DCM4CHe toolkit in wich you can use it to create a Java application for the convertion

http://forums.dcm4che.org/jiveforums/thread.jspa?threadID=1167&tstart=0 (this post is about using the DCM4CHE toolkit with videos)

http://samucs.blogspot.com/2008/12/converting-jpeg-to-dicom-using-dcm4che.html

I think that would be easier to create a multiframe DICOM file, but LabView can call a Java aplication? Do you have any idea how can I achieve this??

The file zize depends on the modality

Common Ultrasound 512x512x8 is about 5-8 Mb

Doppler Ultrasound  512x512x24 is  about 15-24 Mb

Thank you!

[ZJ.Gu]

Hey,

LabVIEW could run an exe. If you have a jpg2dcm concole exe, you could call it from LabVIEW using System Exec.vi. It is under Connectivity->Libraries & Executables palette.

Thanks!

ZJ Gu