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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.
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If a patient is positioned parallel to the ground, in dorsal recumbency (i.e., for humans, face-up on the table), with the caudo- cranial(i.e.,forhumans,feet-to-head)directionthesameasthefront-to-backdirectionoftheimagingequipment,thedirection of the axes of this Patient-Based Coordinate System and the Equipment-Based Coordinate System in previous versions of this Standard will coincide.
The Image Plane Attributes, in conjunction with the Pixel Spacing Attribute, describe the position and orientation of the image slices relative to the Patient-Based Coordinate System. In each image frame Image Position (Patient) (0020,0032) specifies the origin of the image with respect to the Patient-Based Coordinate System. RCS and Image Orientation (Patient) (0020,0037) values specify the orientation of the image frame rows and columns. The mapping of pixel location (i,j) to the RCS is calculated as follows:
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Where:
Pxyz The coordinates of the voxel (i,j) in the frame's image plane in units of mm.
Sxyz The three values of Image Position (Patient) (0020,0032). It is the location in mm from the origin of the RCS.
Xxyz The values from the row (X) direction cosine of Image Orientation (Patient) (0020,0037).
Yxyz The values from the column (Y) direction cosine of Image Orientation (Patient) (0020,0037).
i Column index to the image plane. The first column is index zero.
i Column pixel resolution of Pixel Spacing (0028,0030) in units of mm.
j Row index to the image plane. The first row index is zero.
j Row pixel resolution of Pixel Spacing (0028,0030) in units of mm.
Additional constraints apply:
1.The row and column direction cosine vectors shall be orthogonal, i.e., their dot product shall be zero.
2.The row and column direction cosine vectors shall be normal, i.e., the dot product of each direction cosine vector with itself shall be unity.
C.7.6.2.1.2 Slice Location
Slice Location (0020,1041) is defined as the relative position of the image plane expressed in mm. This information is relative to an unspecified implementation specific reference point.
C.7.6.3 Image Pixel Module
Table C.7-11a describes the Image Pixel Module.