[MINC-users] permuting dimension

[Soren Christensen]

Thanks again!
 1. worked - minctoraw, rawtominc and a minccopyheader (copies header from
another minc) followed by reediting the step sizes solved it.

Cheers
Soren

On 3/1/07, Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Two methods...
>
> 1. (what you suggest, minctoraw and then back in).
>
> 2. Evil tricks with mincedit using the editor argument in which you
> specify the editor as sed or the likes.
>
> ie:
>
>    mincedit foo.mnc "sed -e 's/xspace/yspace/'"
>
> Note that I haven't checked the above!  And of course you will need to
> use an intermediate step to swap dimensions.
>
>
> a
>
> On 3/1/07, Soren Christensen <sorench at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  Is there an easy way to permute dimension of a minc file or is it
> necessary
> > to extract the raw data and re-generate the file.
> > I have a few perfusion dicom data sets where it seems the  dicom header
> is
> > simply wrong -  so i get something like this:
> >   dimension name         length         step        start
> >     --------------         ------         ----        -----
> >     time                       40      unknown      unknown
> >     yspace                     12          9.1     -123.327
> >     zspace                    128       -1.875     -16.2219
> >     xspace                    128       -1.875     -120.938
> >
> > yspace and zspace are swapped around (z is indeed the lowest res
> dimention)
> > so basically my question is how do I unswap them in the easiest way?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Soren
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