[MINC-users] MINC-users Digest, Vol 11, Issue 9

[petra.schweinhardt@mail.mcgill.ca]

Dear Bert,

you are right, mnc2nii -short does the trick - I must have overlooked
        it before - sorry for this!

        Thanks, petra

        BTW: I check the files using avwstats.


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>   1. Re: mnc2nii (Robert VINCENT)
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> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:14:26 -0400
> From: Robert VINCENT <bert at bic.mni.mcgill.ca>
> Subject: Re: [MINC-users] mnc2nii
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> Hi Petra,
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> Can you be a bit more specific? What tool are you using to validate the
> NII file?
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> In most of my testing I can successfully convert a MINC file to NII:
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> mnc2nii -short in.mnc out.nii
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> Then back to MINC:
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> nii2mnc -short out.nii out.mnc
>
> and see that the statistical properties of the resulting image are
> unchanged (within the limits of the voxel precision). It is possible, of
> course, that I've gotten something wrong with respect to the NII format
> such that some tools are not reading the intensities as I intended.
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> 	-bert
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