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For Whole Slide Microscopy Image LOCALIZER images (see Section C.8.12.4.1.1 and Section C.8.12.7), all the optical paths asso- ciated with referenced images shall be described in Items of this Optical Path Sequence. The optical path associated with each refer- enced frame is identified in the Referenced Image Navigation Sequence (0048,0200) by reference to an Optical Path Identifier (0048,0106) of this Sequence. The Optical Path Identifiers used in the LOCALIZER image do not have to be identical to those used in the referenced images.
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1.For example, each of four referenced images may use a different optical path (color), and within each of those image SOP Instances the single Optical Path Sequence (0048,0105) Item is identified as "1", although the meaning of optical path "1" is different for each image. The LOCALIZER, however, must include all four optical paths with distinct identifiers "1", "2", "3", and "4".
2.The Optical Path Identifier is not necessarily numeric; it is a string of up to 16 characters (VR SH).
C.8.12.5.1.2 Illumination Type Code Sequence
Illumination Type Code Sequence (0022,0016) specifies the type of illumination of the imaging target. This Attribute may include multiple Items, as some techniques may involve multiple methods, or some method identifiers may not be completely descriptive.
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For example, this Sequence might include two Items, (111741, DCM, "Transmission illumination") and (111748, DCM, "Dif- ferential interference contrast") to indicate "Transmission DIC".
The type of illumination often prescribes the set of optical path components such as filters and prisms, and their arrangement in the optical path.
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For instance, phase contrast illumination will utilize a condenser annulus and a phase contrast plate; this may be indicated by an Item (111747, DCM, "Phase contrast illumination") in this Attribute, but with no further specification in the filters and lenses identification Attributes.
C.8.12.5.1.3 Light Path and Image Path Filter Type Stack Code Sequences
In some optical imaging methods, e.g., epifluorescence, there may be a single light path with its associated imaging components that is used in both illumination/excitation of the imaging target and in the transmitted/emitted path to the imaging sensor. In this case, the optical components are to be specified in the Image Path Filter Type Stack Code Sequence (0022,0018).
C.8.12.5.1.4 ICC Profile
ICCProfile(0028,2000)providesthetransformformappingstoredcolorpixelvaluesintoICCstandardcolorProfileConnectionSpace (PCS). For MONOCHROME2 pixels that have a preferred color rendering through the Palette Color Lookup Table Sequence (0048,0120),thisAttributeprovidesamappingofthatpreferredRGBcolorrenderingintoPCS.TheICCProfileshallfollowtherequire- ments specified in Section C.11.15.1.1.
C.8.12.6 Whole Slide Microscopy Image Functional Group Macros
The following sections contain Functional Group Macros specific to the VL Whole Slide Microscopy Image IOD.
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The Attribute descriptions in the Functional Group Macros are written as if they were applicable to a single frame (i.e., the Macro is part of the Per-frame Functional Groups Sequence). If an Attribute is applicable to all frames (i.e., the Macro is part of the Shared Functional Groups Sequence) the phrase "this frame" in the Attribute description shall be interpreted to mean "for all frames".
C.8.12.6.1 Plane Position (Slide) Macro
Table C.8.12.6.1-1 specifies the Attributes of the Plane Position (Slide) Functional Group Macro.