[MINC-users] MINC to DICOM

[Laurence MERCIER]

Hello,

I follow your discussions with great interest as I would certainly be one
of the many users of a mnc2dcm script (well when I get back from my
mat leave!). And so as many have already said, I do think it would be very
useful even if it is not a perfect converter! ;-)

Laurence


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Laurence Mercier, PhD student

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Montreal Neurological Institute
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On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Alex Zijdenbos wrote:

> > it states that the first
> > conversion you do is lossy, but that afterwards you could back and
> > forth happily, given properly written converters.
>
> Well this is exactly what I meant - I had implicitly assumed you would
> have done a dicom to minc conversion to get the first minc. Indeed
> that does not cover what a MINC could technically store in a header;
> but mind you processed minc typically has even less information in the
> headers than 'native' minc, so I think it just gets easier.
>
> My point is simple: (a) there is a undeniable (and growing) need/want
> for a minc to dicom converter; and (b) by accepting that the
> conversion may/can not be lossless and/or invertible (as different
> file formats store different things in different ways), we probably
> *can* come up with a converter that works for most people in most
> situations and does retain most 'standard' header fields.
>
> This is exactly the case at the moment for the nii<->mnc converters
> which by and large seem to work for people. I don't think nifti-1 is
> fundamentally different from dicom in this respect - in fact, one
> could argue that nifti-1 is actually 'dumber' than dicom.
>
> I guess I will use the mnc2dcm Andrew provided in this thread (thanks
> Andrew!) until somebody writes a better one :)
>
> -- Alex (Z)
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