# import 3D volume from itk to vtk
**URL:** https://discourse.itk.org/t/import-3d-volume-from-itk-to-vtk/1673
**Category:** Beginner Questions
**Created:** [March 15, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/import-3d-volume-from-itk-to-vtk/1673 "2019-03-15T17:11:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Marco\_Festugato](https://discourse.itk.org/u/Marco_Festugato)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/import-3d-volume-from-itk-to-vtk/1673/1 "2019-03-15T17:11:14Z")
Hi guys! I’ve managed to read 200 DICOM files and use them to compose a volume…how can i pass this volume to VTK in order to actually see it?
Thank u all for your answer 🙂
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### Author:  [@jhlegarreta](https://discourse.itk.org/u/jhlegarreta)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/import-3d-volume-from-itk-to-vtk/1673/2 "2019-03-15T17:55:57Z")
@Marco_Festugato Dženan has kindly answered the very same question posted to the (deprecated) insight-users mailing list, and I’ve just added that VTK has recently transitioned to discourse as well:
[https://discourse.vtk.org](https://discourse.vtk.org)
Since yours is a question related to VTK, please post your question at the VTK discourse forum.
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### Author:  [@Marco\_Festugato](https://discourse.itk.org/u/Marco_Festugato)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/import-3d-volume-from-itk-to-vtk/1673/3 "2019-03-15T18:26:03Z")
ty for your answer! I posted my question there 🙂
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### Author:  [@phcerdan](https://discourse.itk.org/u/phcerdan)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2019, 6:30pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/import-3d-volume-from-itk-to-vtk/1673/4 "2019-03-15T18:30:09Z")
ITK in the module ITKVtkGlue provides a simple viewer for 2D and 3D ITK images using VTK.
Read more about it and see examples in this ITK discourse post: [Display 3D image using ITK and VTK](https://discourse.itk.org/t/display-3d-image-using-itk-and-vtk/897/10)
See an example here: [https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK/blob/master/Modules/Bridge/VtkGlue/test/runViewImage.cxx](https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK/blob/master/Modules/Bridge/VtkGlue/test/runViewImage.cxx)
and the MWE would be:
```auto
#include "itkImage.h"
#include "itkImageFileReader.h"
#include "itkViewImage.h"
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
using PixelType = float;
constexpr unsigned int Dimension = 3;
using ImageType = itk::Image;
using ReaderType = itk::ImageFileReader;
auto reader = ReaderType::New();
reader->SetFileName("MR-head.nrrd");
reader->Update();
itk::ViewImage::View(reader->GetOutput());
}
```
Hope it helps
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### Author:  [@Marco\_Festugato](https://discourse.itk.org/u/Marco_Festugato)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2019, 9:22am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/import-3d-volume-from-itk-to-vtk/1673/5 "2019-03-16T09:22:21Z")
Hi Pablo and thank u for your kind answer. I’ve tried to use your example and adapt it to mine, but i cant find the class references of itkViewImage and when building with VS 2015 i received a fatal error (class not identified)…i obviously use the include…
Can’t i use a class already implemented in itk/vtk to ‘transfer’ my volume?
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### Author:  [@phcerdan](https://discourse.itk.org/u/phcerdan)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/import-3d-volume-from-itk-to-vtk/1673/6 "2019-03-16T14:45:58Z")
> [@Marco\_Festugato](#):
>
> I’ve tried to use your example and adapt it to mine, but i cant find the class references of itkViewImage.
Did you enable the `ITKVtkGlue` module when configuring/building ITK? Configure ITK with `Module_ITKVtkGlue` switched `ON` and try again.
This is the `CMakeLists.txt` with the minimum set of ITK components required for the example.
```cmake
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.8)
project(viewimage_MWE)
find_package(ITK REQUIRED COMPONENTS
ITKCommon
ITKImageIO
ITKVtkGlue
)
include(${ITK_USE_FILE})
add_executable(minimum_viewimage minimum_viewimage.cpp)
target_link_libraries(minimum_viewimage ${ITK_LIBRARIES})
```
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### Author:  [@Ujhik](https://discourse.itk.org/u/Ujhik)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/import-3d-volume-from-itk-to-vtk/1673/7 "2019-04-24T15:04:07Z")
> [@phcerdan](#):
>
> cmake\_minimum\_required(VERSION 3.8) project(viewimage\_MWE) find\_package(ITK REQUIRED COMPONENTS ITKCommon ITKImageIO ITKVtkGlue ) include({ITK\_USE\_FILE}) add\_executable(minimum\_viewimage minimum\_viewimage.cpp) target\_link\_libraries(minimum\_viewimage {ITK\_LIBRARIES})
I have the same problem.
Enabled Module\_ITKVtkGlue.
Can include and use QuickView, so ITKVtkGlue is ON (with it off it doesn’t import)
I am using ITK 4.13.2.
But can’t import “itkViewImage.h”.
**EDIT** : I added manually the itkViewImage.h and itkViewImage.hxx from github to the source, rebuild, and got it working ( as sugested by @phcerdan in other post, thanks )
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### Author:  [@matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/u/matt.mccormick)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2019, 6:30pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/import-3d-volume-from-itk-to-vtk/1673/8 "2019-04-26T18:30:55Z")
@Ujhik glad you got it working. 👍
Another option is to use a newer version of ITK.