GE 3D Ultrasound data file format

[Christian Kollee]

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

[Funke Kaiser]

"Christian Kollee" <sich...@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> schrieb im
Newsbeitrag
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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

[Sabine Wolf]

Funke Kaiser schrieb

> The files included a raw data format in private dicom tags.
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> I think, u have no chance to read out the information of the
> raw data.

Is there no common standard for 3d data?

Sabine

[Funke Kaiser]

"Sabine Wolf" <q599...@mailstore.fernuni-hagen.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:damrqu$hek$1...@beech.fernuni-hagen.de...

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

[Yves Martel]

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 www.TomoVision.com

Merci,

Yves

On 8 Jul 2005 11:41:02 GMT, Christian Kollee

[leb...@gmail.com]

Dear Chritian

I would like to know if you have the kretzfile format of this kind of
data. Currently, I am needing that file format to open the images for my
research. Please, if you have that information I would like to receive your
help with this.

Best regards

Leiner

[Harald Deischinger]

See also the similar question just a few days ago:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.protocols.dicom/G8jl9if0af8

[gordon.n....@gmail.com]

Christian,

Let me know if you are still struggling to open these files. There are simple ways of extracting the volume data.

G.

[avger...@gmail.com]

[van...@gmail.com]

Gordon,

I am not the original poster, but I have the same question. If you have a simple solution for extracting the volume data, it would be very helpful.

Thank you,
-Jeremy

[lic...@gmail.com]

So am I :)

[Harald Deischinger]

When you write about "GE 3D ultrasound data" you probably are only interested in files from Voluson systems.

The volume files are stored in a propietary format. For DICOM transfer usually just screenshot with the propietary file embedded in a private tag is used.
Typically the data in that file is pre-scanconversion, i.e. basically in spherical coordinates. Additionally there is the possibility to create that data also in a Cartesian format (how that is done differs slightly from product version to product version).

The structure of that file is not available to the public. You could ask for an NDA to get the description, but it was a long time that such information was given away, because:

the current versions of the Voluson E-Series and 4DView software can create 3D-DICOM files in the EnhancedUSVolumeStorage format (supplement 43).

So if you have access to a new machine or a somewhat new version of 4DView you can simply load the volume files and export them in the standard format.
The EnhancedUSVolumeStorage is basically a stack of images. Some DICOM viewers (e.g. MITO, Osirix in the upcoming version) can handle that data directly; but also low level access (e.g. from Matlab) should be fairly simple.

Harald

[David Clunie]

Hi Harald

On 7/18/13 9:06 AM, Harald Deischinger wrote:
> the current versions of the Voluson E-Series and 4DView software can create 3D-DICOM files in the EnhancedUSVolumeStorage format (supplement 43).

Since you mentioned it, I put some sample GE Enhanced US Volume that
were supplied to me by GE on the NEMA public server at:

ftp://medical.nema.org/MEDICAL/Dicom/DataSets/WG12/EnhancedVolume/

Note that these samples (and what the GE product creates) are
not perfectly compliant, and I am told this will be fixed in a
future release, but they are "usable".

If anyone has any GE 3D samples in this form (especially with human rather
than dummy data in them) that they care to contribute, let me know, and
I can upload them to the NEMA server (or elsewhere, if appropriate).

If there are any other vendors of this type of data that want to contribute
samples, that would be good too.

David

[Vero]

Gordon,

Hi!! I am also dealing with the problem of extracting information from the volume data of a kretzfile (.v00). It would be very helpful any kind of help.

Thank you,
-Veronica

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http://compgroups.net/comp.protocols.dicom/

[Vero]

Gordon,

Hi!! I am also dealing with the problem of extracting the volume data information from a kretzfile (.v00). It would be very helpful any kind of help.

Thank you in advanced!

[Carlos Sánchez]

Any one found an answer to this?

[w...@socomedical.com]

Greetings Gordon,

I'm looking for a way to do this - could you be able to help?

J

[engg....@gmail.com]

Hi All,
Did anyone tried Slicer 4.8.
Please refer the link:-
https://www.slicer.org/w/images/5/51/3DDataLoadingandVisualization_Slicer4.5_SoniaPujol.pdf

Let me know if it helps.

Suresh