[MINC-users] about minc data format conversion

[Andrew Janke]

Hi Huigang,

MINC itself is certainly byte swapping independent. (endianness
doesn't matter). As for DICOM it is supposed to also be immune to such
things, but then I can't vouch for that as I don't know all the
internals of DICOM and what certain manufacturers do with certain
header fields that may be affecting your conversions.

If your scanner can export DICOM this nearly always turns out to be
the best way to go.  From there simply use dcm2mnc that is part of
minc 1.4 and up.  This dcm2mnc converter should also be able to
convert your GE data once it has been converted to DICOM by your other
converter presuming that the other converter (GE->DCM) follows
standards.


Andrew


On 7/6/06, Huiguang He <hehuiguang at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Dear Minc expert:
>      I have the same question with minc data conversion.
>      Our aim is try to convert GE format data to mnc file. Since
> ge5_to_minc doesn't work. So we use GE->DCM->Analyze->MNC, it seems stupid,
> but it does work.
>      My question is : Is  mnc data format big ending or little ending?
>      Because when I try to use different tools to transfer GE->DCM, some is
> big ending, some is little ending. But little ending DCM file can be
> converted well, while big ending dcm doesn't.
>      So, I want to confirm whether MNC data is big ending or little ending.
>
>      Does anybody have some other method for transfer GE->MNC?
>
>     Thanks very much!
>                                                    Huiguang
>
>     Huiguang He, Ph.D.
>     Chinese Academy of Sciences