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

Roger Luechinger minc-users@bic.mni.mcgill.ca
Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:26:16 +0100


Thanks for the different answers.

Andrew Janke wrote:
> A large number of the existing something->MINC converters are written in Perl
> already.  However this may be a bit of a misnomer, typically the conversion of
> the header and extraction of the header in written in perl. The creation of the
> MINC file itself it usually done via a system call to rawtominc with all the
> approriate "bits" filled in.
> 
> take a look at ana2mnc (analyze to minc) for an example of how to do this:
> 
>    http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/~rotor/src/ana2mnc-1.2.tar.gz
> 
> the function "write_minc()" will create a minc file from a %gen_hdr hash.  use
> the dump_general_header() function to get an idea of the sorts of things that
> are required.

The ana2mnc script looks very useful. Thanks.

Roger
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