[MINC-users] dcm2mnc and (ir)regular spacing?

[Andrew Janke]

>> My read of your header has time at a pretty constant 4s?
>
> For the most part yes; but there is at least one discontinuity in it,
> with a step of >86000s, no?

Well there is that...  I just figured something was amiss with your
input files as this would be a break of 1 day in between time slices.
Are your input files from two separate acquisitions?

> That all makes sense I guess; however, shouldn't there conceptually be
> agreement between the presence of the (ir)regular <dim>:spacing
> attribute value, and the presence of a (likely irregular) list of
> positions in the data section? In other words, if the spacing is
> judged to be regular, why would there still be an explicit list of
> positions in the header (the underlying question being, what do/should
> applications use)?

Myself if a file is defined as regular_ I always just use the start and steps.


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