[MINC-users] NifTi <-> MINC ?

[Morgan Hough]

Sorry. Good point. I have added information about the files to the
webpage (http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~mhough/data.html) as well as a
functional dataset.

Hope this is useful.

Cheers,

-Morgan 

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On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 11:49, Christopher Bailey wrote:
> 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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