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Note
•The VOI LUT mechanism specifically supports floating point values, and there is no expectation that it be limited to integer input or output ranges.
•Even though the output of the VOI LUT is not constrained to be integer values, implicit scaling of the output range to the input range of an integer-based Palette Color LUT can be used to apply pseudo-color for display. Pseudo-color mapping information may be encoded with the image. This may be applied at the discretion of the receiving application or it may use a separate DICOM Color Palette IOD or some other mechanism.
TheParametricMapIODencodesoneormoreparametersasanimage.OtherImageIODsmaybeusedtoencoderelatedinformation, and instances of them may be referenced from the Parametric Map, as the source from which a parameter was derived, or some other relationship.
Note
•The Blending Presentation State IOD may be used to describe how (selected frames of) a Parametric Map instance may besuperimposedon,say,framesofacquiredimagesforanatomicalreferenceencodedasinstancesofotherImageIODs, as well as the relative opacity and pseudo-color applicable to the overlying frames.
•Commonality of the same Frame of Reference UID also allows an application to relate Parametric Map instances and other Image instances, in the absence of explicit references.
•The Parametric Map IOD is not restricted to encoding only a single parameter in one instance. Since it is a multi-frame object, and since the type of parameter is encoded in the Real World Value Mapping Functional Group Macro, which may vary on a per-frame basis, the parameter may also vary from frame-to-frame. In such cases, the Multi-frame Dimension Module may be used to highlight this, by specifying the Quantity Definition Sequence (0040,9220) as a Dimension Index.
A.75.2 Parametric Map IOD Entity-Relationship Model
This IOD uses the E-R Model in Section A.1.2, with only the Image IE below the Series IE.
A.75.3 Parametric Map IOD Module Table
Table A.75-1. Parametric Map IOD Modules
IE |
Module |
Reference |
Usage |
Patient |
Patient |
C.7.1.1 |
M |
|
Clinical Trial Subject |
C.7.1.3 |
U |
Study |
General Study |
C.7.2.1 |
M |
|
Patient Study |
C.7.2.2 |
U |
|
Clinical Trial Study |
C.7.2.3 |
U |
Series |
General Series |
C.7.3.1 |
M |
|
Parametric Map Series |
C.8.32.1 |
M |
|
Clinical Trial Series |
C.7.3.2 |
U |
Frame of Frame of Reference |
C.7.4.1 |
M |
ReferenceSynchronization |
C.7.4.2 |
U |
EquipmentGeneral Equipment |
C.7.5.1 |
M |
|
Enhanced General Equipment |
C.7.5.2 |
M |
Image |
General Image |
C.7.6.1 |
M |
|
General Reference |
C.12.4 |
U |
|
Image Pixel |
C.7.6.3 |
C - Required if integer pixels |
|
Floating Point Image Pixel |
C.7.6.24 |
C - Required if 32 bit floating point pixels |
|
Double Floating Point Image Pixel |
C.7.6.25 |
C - Required if 64 bit floating point pixels |