[MINC-users] dicom/minc/analyze conversions

[Alex ZIJDENBOS]

Tanks - for removing/adding dir cosines, are you suggesting the brute
force approach, i.e., (minc)editing the header?

-- A

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:43:39PM -0400, Andrew Janke wrote:
> here is how I would attack it...
> 
>   1: remove direction cosines from MINC anatomical files
>         (ANALYZE doesn't store them)
>       --or--
>       add direction cosines from anatomical files to labels
> 
>   2: reorder MINC files to have standard dimension ordering
> 
>   3: Be sure to use nii2mnc over ana2mnc
> 
> 
> a
> 
> On 26/10/05, Alex ZIJDENBOS <alex at bic.mni.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a bit of a conundrum: I received a set of MRI data in DICOM
> > format, with accompanying hand-drawn labels in ANALYZE format. When I
> > convert both to MINC, of course the labels don't match the source
> > images, as the world coordinate space has gotten probably lost
> > somewhere along the way at the site that provided me with the data.
> >
> > I have requested that they send me the MRI data also in ANALYZE
> > format, and I am crossing my fingers that when I convert both sets of
> > data to MINC, things will line up. Although I suspect that will work
> > in practice, I was wondering if anybody has other suggestions on how
> > to deal with this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -- A
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