GE 3D Ultrasound data file format

Hi,

I'm a computer science student from the university of Erlangen, Germany.
I have a problem and hope somebody here is able to help me. For my
student research project I have to read data of a GE 3D ultrasound
device (it's a V730, I think). I received some files from the hospital
but I'm unable to read them. Some of them are Dicom files but opened
they only show a 2D image screenshot. The volume data is inclueded in
(I guess) files with the ending .V00. But I don't know how to extract
this information.

I already searched the archives and found a post to this newsgroup in
2003 including the same (?) problem but without a solution. I found out
that the file format is (probably) called "Cartesian Kretz V730 volume
data file format".

Does anybody know how to read this kind of file format?

Regards,
Christian

"Christian Kollee" <sichkoll@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> schrieb im
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hi!

The files included a raw data format in private dicom tags.

I think, u have no chance to read out the information of the
raw data.

greets

Funke Kaiser schrieb
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> The files included a raw data format in private dicom tags.
>
> I think, u have no chance to read out the information of the
> raw data.[/color]

Is there no common standard for 3d data?

Sabine

"Sabine Wolf" <q5999219@mailstore.fernuni-hagen.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Funke Kaiser schrieb
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>> The files included a raw data format in private dicom tags.
>>
>> I think, u have no chance to read out the information of the
>> raw data.[/color]
>
> Is there no common standard for 3d data?[/color]

Possible, but it's a proprietary format in private tags.

Bonjour Christian,

Kretzfile is among the image formats that can be viewed by TomoVision
(our free viewer) and converted to DICOM with DICOMatic.

Both can be downloaded from [url]www.TomoVision.com[/url]

Merci,

Yves


On 8 Jul 2005 11:41:02 GMT, Christian Kollee
<sichkoll@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
[color=blue]
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm a computer science student from the university of Erlangen, Germany.
>I have a problem and hope somebody here is able to help me. For my
>student research project I have to read data of a GE 3D ultrasound
>device (it's a V730, I think). I received some files from the hospital
>but I'm unable to read them. Some of them are Dicom files but opened
>they only show a 2D image screenshot. The volume data is inclueded in
>(I guess) files with the ending .V00. But I don't know how to extract
>this information.
>
>I already searched the archives and found a post to this newsgroup in
>2003 including the same (?) problem but without a solution. I found out
>that the file format is (probably) called "Cartesian Kretz V730 volume
>data file format".
>
>Does anybody know how to read this kind of file format?
>
>Regards,
> Christian[/color]

Hi;

I am working on a project that uses GE V730 US machine to real-time guide laproscopic tools in surgery. I need to convert the 3D/4D output from the GE machine to a standard CAD format (say STL), so that my own algorithm could segment and identify the organs' positions in real-time. Does anyone know that format of GE US raw output ?

Thanks.

Fun Wey