[MINC-development] MINC format converters

[Andrew Janke]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Peter NEELIN wrote:

> > There are also of course the siemens/GE/phillips/scx/ecat converters that you
> > would know about already.
>
> Unfortunately, the Siemens, GE, Philips converters were (and I suspect
> still are) developed under NDA and the perl code exposes proprietary
> information that those companies at one point cared about keeping quiet
> (goodness knows why), so they cannot be freely distributed. The
> Scanditronix and ECAT converters do not have this problem, as far as I
> understand.

>
> There is a dicom_to_minc perl script in the same spot that could
> be useful:
>
> Input format name:  DICOM
> Output:             .mnc
> URL/ Download site: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/~neelin/distrib/minc_converters/dicom/
> Development Info:   Peter Neelin
> Dependencies:       minc, perl, libacr_nema (same directory),
>                     image_filters (required source files in same
>                     directory, full package at MNI minc ftp site)
> Comments:           Based on an old perl script hack, but produces
>                     reasonably good MINC files for anatomical MRI.
>                     Preserves standard DICOM fields from the
>                     first DICOM file in the minc header.
> Suggested By:       neelin@bic.mni.mcgill.ca
>
>             Peter
> ----
>             Peter Neelin (neelin@bic.mni.mcgill.ca)
>
>
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