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

[Jonathan HARLAP]

Alternately, if you wished to use Perl you could follow a design
similar to dicom_to_minc.  In a nutshell, this means parsing the
header data into a MINC-friendly format and then running rawtominc.

I haven't looked at dicomserver recently, but you might want to get in
touch with Leili Torab (leili@bic.mni.mcgill.ca) who I believe has
been working on dicomserver - perhaps she has a version that runs on
more up-to-date linuxes.

Jon


On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 05:02:01PM +0100, Marc D. Migge wrote:
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> 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
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