[MINC-users] NifTi <-> MINC ?

[Christopher Bailey]

Thought so!

I see Morgan has already provided some example data. Perhaps the details
of the file (dimensions, steps, etc) would be handy when testing a
converter. Morgan?

As a caveat emptor to what I said previously, the next two paragraphs
are by Mark Jenkinson on the FSL mailing list:

"
The current FSL release is a beta release and we have
not yet taken advantage of the full set of possibilities that
the nifti file format creates.  Part of this is that we do not
use qforms in any of our processing at present.  We do
use sforms for calculating standard space coordinates,
as is implemented in the current version of fslview.

Therefore, at present all fsl routines work in ijk coordinates
in the same way that they always have before.  As Dave says,
the next version of fsl will be likely to support qforms.
"

So for some time to come we should be aware that the full NifTi
specification is not used by FSL programs (SPM?).

-Chris (volunteer beta tester)

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 11:47, Andrew Janke wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Christopher Bailey wrote:
> 
> > Dear list (not to mention Andrew ;),
> >
> > Has anyone out there written a NifTi <-> MINC converter? With the new
> > analyze replacement, there's some hope of L-R consistency etc. when
> > converting to/from MINC. I still vow to lobby inclusion of MINC I/O in
> > FSL, but until that happens, I'm stuck with converting.
> >
> > Just wanted to hear if anyone had already put effort into this
> > (re-inventing the wheel, and all that...).
> 
> Guilty as charged.  I have begun some initial work on adding another analyze 
> "type" to ana2mnc but haven't released anyhting yet. If only because I am yet to 
> see some example NIFTI-1 files.  So if you have some and can put them on a 
> download site somewhere I'll then have something to test what I have with!
> 
> My current approach was to wait untill someone asked for it and then worry about 
> it.  And now someone has..... :)
> 
> 
> 
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