Blending Sequence Attribute
| Tag | (0070,0402) |
|---|---|
| Type | Required (1) |
| Keyword | BlendingSequence |
| Value Multiplicity | 1 |
| Value Representation | Sequence (SQ) |
A Sequence of Items, one identifying and describing transformations upon a set of underlying grayscale images, and the other identifying and describing transformations upon a set of superimposed grayscale images.
Two Items shall be included in this Sequence
See Section C.11.14.1.1.
Section C.11.14.1.1
C.11.14.1.1 Blending Sequence
Blending Sequence (0070,0402) is used to identify two sets of images, one to be superimposed upon the other.
The sets of images and any subset of the frames therein in the case of multi-frame images are identified by Study, Series, SOP Instance and Frame Number. In the case of a Segmentation image, the subset of segments is identified by the Attribute Referenced Segment Number (0062,000B) in the Referenced Image Sequence (0008,1140) invoked in the Presentation State Relationship Macro.
This Module specifies no explicit relationship (such as pairing or ordering) between the sets of images and frames defined in the first Item for the underlying images, and the second Item for the superimposed images. This Module does not define how the images are spatially related, and what re-sampling, if any, needs to be performed before the images are blended for rendering.
Note
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The images in the two sets may share the same Frame of Reference, in which case the rendering application can spatially relate the two sets of images based on their Image Position (Patient) (0020,0032) and Image Orientation (Patient) (0020,0037) Attributes.
Alternatively, a Spatial Registration SOP Instance may exist that relates either two different Frames of Reference, or two sets of images identified by UID and frame.
Whilst the two sets of images may already be spatially co-registered and oriented in the same plane, or even be sampled at the same in-plane and between-plane resolution, this will frequently not be the case.
See PS3.4 for behavioral requirements that apply to Storage SOP Classes using this Module.
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The underlying image for a superimposed Segmentation image need not be the source image for the segmentation.