[MINC-users] MINC to DICOM

[Burt Crépeault]

Here's how I see this particular issue.

I don't think that anybody will ever ask for a magical mnc2dcm that figures
out all the proper DICOM headers to include in the files, other than the
spatial data. However, a much more realistic and useful feature for
successful dcm2mnc and mnc2dcm conversions could look like this:

dcm2mnc (<dicom>) => <minc> + <headers>

(the original DICOM headers are extracted and saved in a standard file
format -- a carefully crafted XML schema comes to mind)

mnc2dcm (<minc> [, <headers>]) => <dicom>

(the mnc2dcm function requires an external header file to reproduce the
original dicoms, otherwise the header info is simply lost)

That way, whatever transformations happen to the MINC file are independent
to those happening at the header level. In other words, it entirely up to
your application logic to track, transform and reinject the headers at
reconversion time.

Burt.