[MINC-users] dcm2mnc vs 3D DICOM

[Robert D. Vincent]

Hi Alex,

We've encountered so little 3D DICOM over the years I'm not surprised it
isn't handled well.

Thanks for the dataset. I will look into it and let you know.

    -bert


On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Alex Zijdenbos <zijdenbos at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I got some 3D DICOM SPECT data that dcm2mnc issues with - depending on what
> version of dcm2mnc I use, I get somewhat different results; but in most
> cases I end up with irregular z-spacing and/or a flipped z-axis. The most
> recent version I tried was dcm2mnc version 2.01.03 from minc-toolkit
> version 1.0.08.
>
> If I run the same thing through dcm2nii followed by nii2mnc (ugh!), I
> actually get a volume that looks like I expected. There appears to be
> coordinate space information in the 3D DICOM that dcm2nii seems to be able
> to interpret, but dcm2mnc does not.
>
> Thoughts/pointers/updated versions of dcm2mnc?
>
> Here is a sample DICOM set:
> ​
>  s1_0013006_3006.dcm.gz
> <
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5fOtqpIs4sKVVlVVVF0VTZ5Sjg/view?usp=drive_web
> >
> ​
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- A
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