getOrientation: Convert Direction Cosines to Anatomical Direction

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also

View source: R/orientation.R

Description

For cross-sectional DICOM images the orientation must be derived from the Image Orientation (Patient) direction cosines.

Usage

1
getOrientation(xyz, delta = 0.0001)

Arguments

xyz

is a vector of direction cosines from “ImageOrientationPatient” (0020,0037).

delta

is the tolerance around zero for comparisons.

Details

C.7.6.2.1.1 Image Position And Image Orientation. The Image Position (0020,0032) specifies the x, y, and z coordinates of the upper left hand corner of the image; it is the center of the first voxel transmitted. Image Orientation (0020,0037) specifies the direction cosines of the first row and the first column with respect to the patient. These Attributes shall be provide as a pair. Row value for the x, y, and z axes respectively followed by the Column value for the x, y, and z axes respectively. The direction of the axes is defined fully by the patient's orientation. The x-axis is increasing to the left hand side of the patient. The y-axis is increasing to the posterior side of the patient. The z-axis is increasing toward the head of the patient. The patient based coordinate system is a right handed system; i.e., the vector cross product of a unit vector along the positive x-axis and a unit vector along the positive y-axis is equal to a unit vector along the positive z-axis.

Value

Anatomical direction shall be designated by the capital letters:

A

anterior

P

posterior

R

right

L

left

H

head

F

foot

Author(s)

Brandon Whitcher bwhitcher@gmail.com

References

http://www.dclunie.com/medical-image-faq/html/part2.html

See Also

swapDimension


oro.dicom documentation built on Oct. 30, 2019, 9:59 a.m.