I am trying to add ‘hotspots’ from a DW MRI image over top of a CT image. The goal is to have something that looks like a classic PET-CT image, with anatomical data from CT in greyscale with ‘functional’ info from the MRI in colour on top. I have been able to get something that looks like what I want by doing manual registration and overlaying the CT and MRI images in the viewer. That looks like this:
If the MRI covers the same anatomy and has good content then registration should be robust, just follow the instructions. If the DWI scan doesn’t show the anatomy well then another series from the same study that shares the geometry could be used for the registration.
I’ve been able to follow those instructions.
It’s still unclear how when using manual registration I can go from having two different overlaid files in the viewer to actually being able to export that as one DICOM file. Is that possible?
Is there a way to get automatic registration to preserve the colour I’ve set on the DW MRI image? These are the things I’m struggling with the most, as I’m not sure how I can essentially export this file with the visual I’d like.
We don’t typically export these visualizations to DICOM. What is your goal for that?
You can use the Screen Capture module to export to movie or image files with the overlays and colors preserved. It could make sense to export these to DICOM secondary captures but I don’t recall that ever coming up as a requirement before.
The goal is just to be able to share the file with colleagues who don’t have or can’t work Slicer. I will have a look at exporting them as image files and see if that suits the use.
The solution I found was to give up on preserving the different colours. Scalar addition lets you add the high intensity regions to the background image volume. Then there is a function built in to 3D Slicer to export the image volume as a DICOM file. This file works when uploading to other viewers, such as PACS.
