[MINC-users] mnc2nii

[Soren Christensen]

Thanks for the fast help Naj and Andrew - used the correctheader for a
quick fix and seems to work fine.

Cheers
Soren


On 10/15/07, Najmeh Khalili M. <najma at bic.mni.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>
> Soren,
>
> You can use FSL's "correctheader" command to fix that. But ONLT
> if you have 4 missing bytes and get the warning message you
> posted.
>
> Without this correction, your data might be shifted by one voxel.
>
> Cheers
> Naj
>
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Andrew Janke wrote:
>
> > On 10/15/07, Soren Christensen <sorench at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >  I noticed that FSL 4.0 complains over the .nii files created by mnc2nii.
> > > ++ WARNING: nifti_read_buffer(tmp.nii):
> > >    data bytes needed = 2097152
> > >    data bytes input  = 2097148
> > >    number missing    = 4 (set to 0)
> > >
> > > Apparently it is triggered by the use of a new nifti library in the
> > > FSL package. Does anyone know if there is a bug (in FSL or mnc2nii)
> > > and if it has any consequences (a pixel or 2 are nulled pherhaps)?
> >
> > Hi Soren,
> >
> > Yes this is correct from what I understand. The new version of MINC
> > (in the 2.X chain) fixes this by linking with the new niftilib as
> > well.
> >
> > The simple fix is to use .hdr/.img files instead of a .nii from what I
> > understand it is because of a ambiguity in the spec WRT NifTI/Analyze.
> >
> >
> > a
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