I have forgotten to mention that there are some hidden fields in the DICOM
file, could they contain the necessary information.
Anybody looked into that?

Kristof

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> Hello,
>
> recently I experienced some problems with DICOM raw (projection data) from
> a triple head gamma camera (IRIX, Philips). I am concerned about a few
> issues.
>
> - the DICOM file does not contain information about the head-number
> - eventhough I ordered for a Clockwise rotation, the DICOM file contains
> the notation CCW (counter-clockwise).
> - there is no reference to the protocol that was used, e.g. brain SPECT,
> bone SPECT, ...
> - the IRIX gamma camera has VT-technology, which means that the head can
> move tangentially. Again, no information about that movement or reference
> to the offset (could be interesting for fanbeam collimation ...).
> - data is not chronologically sorted, eventhough head 2 starts at an
> offset of 120 degrees and performes a 360 orbit, this information is not
> contained in the DICOM file. All startangles are set to that of head 1.
> - there is no reference to the head orientation (120, 90, 180 degrees)
>
> Are there any medical physicist or other people that are familiar with
> these problems, having an IRIX system, or experience similar problems with
> raw SPECT data. Philips has taken notice of this problem. But I have not
> received any official reply.
>
> Kristof Baete
> Medical Physicist
> Department of Nuclear Medicine
> Catholic University Leuven
> University Hospital Gasthuisberg
> Belgium
>
>