I don't think we read compressed data at all, so I'm not sure why you can read these compressed DICOM files at all. If the data is not really compressed, there may be a problem reading some of the parameters like the voxel sizes in one of the directions. I think it would be useful to leave out the prefix in your command and use the GUI to see if the data can be read. Use the "View Images" button to check if you have the right number of slices and set the voxel sizes and orientation yourself there. Otherwise, you may want to get a different format from the scanner if possible. Philips can create NIFTI, various DICOM formats and their PAR/REC format. Another possibility is to try some other conversion software to read this data. I found a couple that convert from compressed to uncompressed DICOM. mri_convert (FreeSurfer), MRIconvert, dcm2nii (MRIcron) are all good candidates. Osirix claims to support reading compressed DICOM files specifically. If you can't make any progress, let me know, and I'll take a swing at it.

http://support.dcmtk.org/docs/dcmdjpeg.html
http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/html/gdcmconv.html
http://www.dclunie.com/dicom3tools.html
http://www.osirix-viewer.com/



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/30/2015 05:57PM by Daniel Glen.