Cant read a special type of DICOM by VTK

I need to know the SOPClassUID in order to properly help you. Can you install a DICOM viewer like OsiriX or Weasis Medical Viewer that allows you to view the meta data? Or if you are comfortable using the command line, you can use dcmtk, gdcm, or my own dicomtools to get the meta data.

With that TransferSyntaxUID, chances are good that you have an uncompressed multi-frame file. The vtkDICOMImageReader cannot read these files, but I have written my own vtkDICOMReader that can read them.

Dealing with these files is never easy, though. Sometimes the entire “movie” is stored in a single multi-frame file, and sometimes it is split across several files. Sometimes there are multiple views. For subtraction images (DSA), sometimes the DICOM series has one single-frame file for the background and another multi-frame file with contrast.

To make things even more complicated, sometimes the radiologists will save their favorite frames as secondary capture images, which have a different SOPClassUID than the original images and often have to be dealt with in a different manner.

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