[MINC-development] minc 2.0.09 available

Robert VINCENT minc-development@bic.mni.mcgill.ca
Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:53:07 -0400


Hi minc-developers,

The latest version of MINC 2.0 is now available here:

http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/software/minc/

A source tarball is available for all UNIX-like platforms, and a binary
installer is available for Windows (courtesy of Leila Baghdadi).

Important features in this release include:

1. Libraries
* minc 2.0 library revised to function properly with HDF5 1.6.4.

* volume_io libraries now provide some basic support for handling
irregularly spaced time dimensions.

* library has had several other minor bug fixes

2. Basic tools
* mincresample - Added windowed sinc interpolation.

* mincconcat - Added "-filestarts" option for increased flexibility in
combining functional runs.

* mincpik - new "-auto_range" option and other cleanup.

3. Format converters
* dcm2mnc (DICOM converter) has been added to this distribution.

* nii2mnc (NIfTI-1 converter) has more support for Analyze 7.5 format
files.

* minctoecat (ECAT converter) has been added to this distribution.

* upet2mnc (Concorde microPET converter) has been updated.

Please send all feedback and requests to me, as usual.

	-bert