vtkMetaImageWriter Class Reference

#include <vtkMetaImageWriter.h>

Inheritance diagram for vtkMetaImageWriter:

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Detailed Description

write a binary UNC meta image data

One of the formats for which a reader is already available in the toolkit is the MetaImage file format. This is a fairly simple yet powerful format consisting of a text header and a binary data section. The following instructions describe how you can write a MetaImage header for the data that you download from the BrainWeb page.

The minimal structure of the MetaImage header is the following:

NDims = 3 DimSize = 181 217 181 ElementType = MET_UCHAR ElementSpacing = 1.0 1.0 1.0 ElementByteOrderMSB = False ElementDataFile = brainweb1.raw

NDims indicate that this is a 3D image. ITK can handle images of arbitrary dimension. DimSize indicates the size of the volume in pixels along each direction. ElementType indicate the primitive type used for pixels. In this case is "unsigned char", implying that the data is digitized in 8 bits / pixel. ElementSpacing indicates the physical separation between the center of one pixel and the center of the next pixel along each direction in space. The units used are millimeters. ElementByteOrderMSB indicates is the data is encoded in little or big endian order. You might want to play with this value when moving data between different computer platforms. ElementDataFile is the name of the file containing the raw binary data of the image. This file must be in the same directory as the header.

MetaImage headers are expected to have extension: ".mha" or ".mhd"

Once you write this header text file, it should be possible to read the image into your ITK based application using the itk::FileIOToImageFilter class.

See also:: vtkImageWriter vtkMetaImageReader

Created by:

Cedilnik, Andy

CVS contributions (if > 5%):

Cedilnik, Andy (98%)

CVS logs (CVSweb):

.cxx (/IO/vtkMetaImageWriter.cxx)
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Tests:: vtkMetaImageWriter (Tests)

Definition at line 79 of file vtkMetaImageWriter.h.

Public Types

typedef vtkImageWriter Superclass

Public Member Functions

virtual const char * GetClassName ()

virtual int IsA (const char *type)

void PrintSelf (ostream &os, vtkIndent indent)

virtual void Write ()

virtual void SetFileName (const char *fname)

virtual char * GetFileName ()

virtual void SetRAWFileName (const char *fname)

virtual char * GetRAWFileName ()

Static Public Member Functions

int IsTypeOf (const char *type)

vtkMetaImageWriter * SafeDownCast (vtkObject *o)

vtkMetaImageWriter * New ()

Protected Member Functions

vtkMetaImageWriter ()

~vtkMetaImageWriter ()

virtual void SetMHDFileName (const char *)

Protected Attributes

char * MHDFileName

Member Typedef Documentation

typedef vtkImageWriter vtkMetaImageWriter::Superclass

Reimplemented from vtkImageWriter.
Definition at line 82 of file vtkMetaImageWriter.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

vtkMetaImageWriter::vtkMetaImageWriter ( ) [protected]

vtkMetaImageWriter::~vtkMetaImageWriter ( ) [protected]

Member Function Documentation

virtual const char* vtkMetaImageWriter::GetClassName ( ) [virtual]

Reimplemented from vtkImageWriter.

int vtkMetaImageWriter::IsTypeOf ( const char * type ) [static]

Return 1 if this class type is the same type of (or a subclass of) the named class. Returns 0 otherwise. This method works in combination with vtkTypeRevisionMacro found in vtkSetGet.h.
Reimplemented from vtkImageWriter.

virtual int vtkMetaImageWriter::IsA ( const char * type ) [virtual]

Return 1 if this class is the same type of (or a subclass of) the named class. Returns 0 otherwise. This method works in combination with vtkTypeRevisionMacro found in vtkSetGet.h.
Reimplemented from vtkImageWriter.

vtkMetaImageWriter* vtkMetaImageWriter::SafeDownCast ( vtkObject * o ) [static]

Reimplemented from vtkImageWriter.

void vtkMetaImageWriter::PrintSelf ( ostream & os,

vtkIndent indent

) [virtual]

Methods invoked by print to print information about the object including superclasses. Typically not called by the user (use Print() instead) but used in the hierarchical print process to combine the output of several classes.
Reimplemented from vtkImageWriter.

vtkMetaImageWriter* vtkMetaImageWriter::New ( ) [static]

Construct object with FlipNormals turned off and Normals set to true.
Reimplemented from vtkImageWriter.

virtual void vtkMetaImageWriter::SetFileName ( const char * fname ) [virtual]

Specify file name of meta file
Reimplemented from vtkImageWriter.

virtual char* vtkMetaImageWriter::GetFileName ( ) [inline, virtual]

Specify file name of meta file
Reimplemented from vtkImageWriter.
Definition at line 91 of file vtkMetaImageWriter.h.

virtual void vtkMetaImageWriter::SetRAWFileName ( const char * fname ) [virtual]

Specify the file name of the raw image data.

virtual char* vtkMetaImageWriter::GetRAWFileName ( ) [virtual]

Specify the file name of the raw image data.

virtual void vtkMetaImageWriter::Write ( ) [virtual]

Write the actual file
Reimplemented from vtkImageWriter.

virtual void vtkMetaImageWriter::SetMHDFileName ( const char * ) [protected, virtual]

Member Data Documentation

char* vtkMetaImageWriter::MHDFileName [protected]

Definition at line 108 of file vtkMetaImageWriter.h.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

dox/IO/vtkMetaImageWriter.h


Public Types
typedef vtkImageWriter	Superclass
Public Member Functions
virtual const char *	GetClassName ()
virtual int	IsA (const char *type)
void	PrintSelf (ostream &os, vtkIndent indent)
virtual void	Write ()

virtual void	SetFileName (const char *fname)
virtual char *	GetFileName ()

virtual void	SetRAWFileName (const char *fname)
virtual char *	GetRAWFileName ()
Static Public Member Functions
int	IsTypeOf (const char *type)
vtkMetaImageWriter *	SafeDownCast (vtkObject *o)
vtkMetaImageWriter *	New ()
Protected Member Functions
	vtkMetaImageWriter ()
	~vtkMetaImageWriter ()
virtual void	SetMHDFileName (const char *)
Protected Attributes
char *	MHDFileName