Why am I getting an error message "unsupported data encoding" with the dicomread command yet dicominfo reads the same file with no problem?

I am currently working with a stack of Dicom (.dcm) images which I converted from a .mnc file through the MIPAV software program. The Dicom info can be accessed successfully through the dicominfo command, but when I attempt to load the image data through dicomread I get the following error:

Error using dicomread>newDicomread (line 211) Unsupported data encoding.

Error in dicomread (line 80) [X, map, alpha, overlays] = newDicomread(msgname, frames);

To get around this, I'm currently converting the .dcm files to .bmp files so that I can load them in Matlab. It seems like I should be able to load the Dicom images since I can access the metadata. Any help or advice would be appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

[Daniel Bridges]

Perhaps you need to convert the data from signed to unsigned integers via commands like uint16 or double?