[MINC-users] dcm2mnc and long attribute fields

[Soren Christensen]

Hi,
 Someone at the department here had a problem that seems to be related
to dcm2mnc behaviour.
When dcm2mnc is run on a large number of dicom files, the parsed files
contain attribute with all the names of the files used as argument.

It seems minc_modify_header can have problems with long attribute fields.
Here's output from an mritoself on a couple of files:

Copying
chunks:..............................................................................................................................................................................................Done.
spawn: exec of minc_modify_header failed: Argument list too long
autocrop: crashed while running minc_modify_header (termination
status=65280)
mritoself: crashed while running autocrop (termination status=65280)

A workaround is to call dcm2mnc on a subset provided sorted by other means,
but I am just mentioning it here in case anyone wants to address the issue.

Cheers
Soren