[MINC-users] Convert Philips REC/PAR-Files zu minc-format

[Marc D. Migge]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Hi,

if you want to stick to perl you might want to try
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf-perl/ . But it's not quite
up to date. It supports only NetCDF 3.3 (the current version is 3.5.0).
Plus you will have to be very careful to follow the document structure
as outlined in the MINC-Documentation.

If you use the C/C++ you could make use of the libraries from the
MINC-package. With little extra work you can compile these under Windows
as well. You could then use volume_io to create a basic MINC file and
write the image-data. To set the image-attributes use the MINC-or
NetCDF-library directly.

Best regards,
Marc Migge


Roger Luechinger wrote:
| Hi minc-users,
|
| Up to now we used in Zurich the dicom-server from the mni-project to get
| the data from our Philips scanners to the minc format. However with each
| release change we (or better say Gerard Crelier) had to adaped the
| dicomserver.
| The last time ~3 year ago we had huge problems to find a suitable old
| Linux installation to compile it (it worked only on a Suse ~6.x), but
| now we do no longer have such an old system. Together with other
| problems concerning the dicom transfer and the lake of knowledge about
| that dicomserver we are thinking to change the way to create the
| minc-files.
|
| And for that purpose I need some tips and infos.
|
| Over the last few year Philips create for offline postprocessing a new
| file format (REC and PAR-Files) which are usd in our lab for all
| purposes...
| The REC-File contains all images from a scans in a binary format
| (integers) without any header, the PAR-Files contains all the infos for
| the scan and also for each image in an ASCII format.
| Converter for REC/PAR to analyze we wrote by ourself, and now I would
| like to do the same for the minc format. However I could not find infos
| which parameter and image infos have to be stored in a minc-file.
|
| Preferable I'd like to write it with perl. Mainly do to portability and
| prior knowlegde reason. The initial implementation will be under Linux.
|
| Can you gave me any links, documents, software-templates which would be
| useful for such a project. Perhaps there are other users which would be
| interested in such a project.
|
| Regards
|
| Roger

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFAGS55PxXwn5JoIGsRAj+yAJ9Q/aDmpYU6pBKbibeZfaZsgbVDjQCg26B2
6GceiuMQ8I1HJFzvsf/P0v0=
=6Orw
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----