[MINC-users] Best way to convert UNC to MINC

Andrew Janke a.janke at gmail.com
Wed Mar 28 08:24:37 EDT 2012


On 28 March 2012 22:20, Nam, Kie Woo <kie_woo.nam at kcl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Thank you very much for the answer. I understand that I can convert a coronal UNC image into MINC format either by using (1) "coronal2axial" and "unc2mnc" or (2) "unc2analyze" and "nii2mnc" or "rawtominc".

And I'd be sticking with #1.

> So, I'm very sorry to bother you again, but would you be able to recommend which one to use between "nii2mnc" and "rawtominc" if I try option (2)? I wish to try both options because I'm equally worried about the risk from coronal-to-axial conversion as much as that from the UNC-to-Analyze one.

Well the obvious choice is nii2mnc as then you won't have to figure
out orientations, image sizes, image ranges, direction cosines etc and
pass them all in to rawtominc as parameters manually.  If you meant
nii2mnc or ana2mnc then the answer is nii2mnc.


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