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

[Andrew Janke]

Ah, first things first, please upgrade to the latest release which has
a number of changes to dcm2mnc (v1.9.1 of minc-toolkit):

   http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesSoftware/ServicesSoftwareMincToolKit#1.9.10


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On 5 November 2015 at 16:12, Yoshitaka KUMAKURA
<yoshi.kumakura at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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