[MINC-users] transformation of GE to MINC

[Andrew Janke]

> I encountered a problem when I transformate GE to MINC. we acquired data with GE-signa 1.5 Tesla scanner, and wanted ultimate data with MINC format. for this sake. we tested 3 ways:

> 1. transformate GE data to DICOM, then to MINC. At the ADW4.0 workstation of GE, exported the data of GE format to ADW to finish DICOM transformation. but there is a trouble that one folder can only hold 1000 files in GE equipment, 3000 files of one run in our experiment were divided into 3 folder, they can't be accepted by the programme of dcm2mnc(BIC MNI McGill). we tried to rename 3000 fiels, and packed them into one folder, the dcm2mnc can't read it at all. then we tested the second way:

> 2. transformated DICOM to analyze. after renaming and packing 3000 dicom files, I finshed analyze transormation using [MRIcro/Import/convert foreign to analyze]. then transformated it to MINC, but next step(Register program at BIC.MNI.McGILL) go wrong, 2 images can't be registered.

> 3. transformate GE to MINC, after renaming and packing 3000 GE files to analyze(*.img&*.hdr) I used program ge5_to_minc to finish it. but ge5_to_minc can't run at all, it displayed: "1024 error".

Zhang,

I suspect the least problematic method will be #1.  However when you
say that dc2mnc cant read it what was the error?  If you have all the
dicom files in one folder you can call dcm2mnc as such:

   $ dcm2mnc input_dir output_dir

I suggest you also make sure that you are using a recent version of
dcm2mnc, the one included in minc 1.4 should be enough.


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