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resolve this ambiguity. If the Attribute set contains more dimensions than are needed to specify a unique ordering, the lower order ranking Attribute(s) will have no effect on the ordering.
Note
For example if there were the following indices in the following order:
•Stack ID (1-3)
•In-stack Position Number (1-2 for Stack ID 1, 1-4 for Stack ID 2, 1-3 for Stack ID 3)
•Effective Echo Time (1-2), i.e., every slice has been scanned with 2 different effective echo's
Then the frames could be presented in the following order:
(Stack ID, In-stack Position, Effective Echo Time)
(1,1,1), (1,1,2), (1,2,1), (1,2,2),
(2,1,1), (2,1,2), (2,2,1), (2,2,2), (2,3,1), (2,3,2), (2,4,1), (2,4,2)
(3,1,1), (3,1,2), (3,2,1), (3,2,2), (3,3,1), (3,3,2)
The actual order of the frames in the object is up to the generating application.
If the effective echo time was not included in the Dimension Index Pointers in the above example then the order of sorting for the frames with the same indices will be undefined - in this case there would be 2 frames with the index set (Stack ID, In-stack Position) = (1,1) and the order of these frames is not specified.
If there were another Attribute appended to the Dimension Index Pointers, for example TR, then the TR index would not be usedindeterminingtheorderoftheframes.SotheIndexFramePointerswouldcontain(StackID,In-stackPosition,Effective Echo Time, TR) but the TR index would be irrelevant for frame ordering purposes.
Table C.7.6.17-1 specifies the Attributes of the Multi-frame Dimension Module.
Table C.7.6.17-1. Multi-frame Dimension Module Attributes
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Attribute Description |
Dimension Organization |
(0020,9221) |
1 Sequence that lists the Dimension Organization UIDs referenced by the |
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containing SOP Instance. See Section C.7.6.17.2 for further explanation. |
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One or more Items shall be included in this Sequence. |
>Dimension Organization |
(0020,9164) |
1 Uniquely identifies a set of dimensions referenced within the containing |
UID |
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SOP Instance. See Section C.7.6.17.2 for further explanation. |
Dimension Organization |
(0020,9311) |
3 Dimension organization of the instance. |
Type |
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Defined Terms: |
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3D |
Spatial Multi-frame image of equally spaced parallel |
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planes (3D volume set) |
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3D_TEMPORALTemporal loop of equally spaced parallel-plane 3D |
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volume sets. |
TILED_FULL Tiled image in which each frame represents a single tile and the spatial positions of the tiles are implicitly defined as per Section C.7.6.17.3.
TILED_SPARSETiled image in which each frame represents a single tile and the spatial positions of tiles are explicitly defined by per-frame Functional Group Macro entries.