Unable to import Brainlab SEG to Slicer

[lassoan (Andras Lasso)]

It’s great that you find useful for analyzing your surgeries using Slicer.

Importing of the DICOM Segmentation object fails due to this error (shown in application log in Slicer):

ERROR: No sufficient information to derive slice spacing! Unable to interpret the data.
Fatal error encountered.

This is a known error in BrainLab’s software. See solution for fixing the DICOM data set here:

Unable to load DICOM segmentation - missing slice thickness

I’m unable to load a DICOM segmentation. The segmentation was created by the Brainlab Curve navigation system in the AMIGO suite. I unfortunately cannot share the file. Tested on the latest preview version (version 5.1.0, revision 30987, built 2022-06-02) and the stable release. I was tempted to ignore this and just assume that the file was faulty, but: this was the case for more than one file I could open the segmentation with other software (ImFusion Suite Demo Version to be specific) T…

@fedorov do you know if they have fixed this in later BrainLab software versions?