[MINC-users] dcm2mnc for Siemens Biograph mCT 64 PET/CT scanner

[Yoshitaka KUMAKURA]

Hi Andrew,

The dcm2mnc version I am using is "program: 2.0.07 built Sep 26 2012".

Thank you for your quick response.
Yoshi

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Yoshi,
>
> Which version of dcm2mnc are you using (dcm2mnc -version will tell
> you), Bert has put a lot of work into the converter as of late to get
> it up to speed.
>
> My guess is that the converter cannot separate the frames and thus
> only keeps the first frame, you can get around this but let's see
> which version you are running first.
>
>
> a
>
>
> On 5 November 2015 at 15:50, Yoshitaka KUMAKURA
> <yoshi.kumakura at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear MINC experts,
> >
> > We would like to use MINC tools to analyze dynamic PET files of a Siemens
> > Biograph mCT 64 PET/CT scanner in an affiliated hospital in Copenhagen.
> We
> > are not new to MINC, because we are former BIC researchers (currently in
> > Albert Gjedde's lab). But, we are a small PET research group with no
> > computer scientist.
> >
> > We have a favor to ask. We've tried dcm2mnc to convert a set of dynamic
> 4D
> > PET Dicom files to a minc files, and found that it just makes a 3D minc
> > file, missing the 4th time dimension. Has anybody encountered the same
> > issue? Is a dcm2mnc utility for the scanner available? We are in great
> need
> > of the minc converter customized for the PET/CT scanner. We would
> > appreciate it very much, if you could find us a solution.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Yoshi
> >
> > Yoshitaka Kumakura MD, PhD, Manou Vafaee, PhD, and Albert Gjedde MD, DSc
> > Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
> > University of Copenhagen
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