Dear SPMers, I have written some software to convert all Supermosaic dicom images in one directory to SPM analyze in batch mode. The software is 1.A little ansi c program (dcmsmosaic.c). It complies perfectly on windows and linux/freebsd ... (linux makefile included) Program input: <matrix size> <number of slices per volume> <number of volumes per file> <start number for output> <raw data file> the raw data file is the supermosaic dcm image without the header (can be done with xmedcon or vtk) Program output: A number of raw data files (as many as there are volumes in the file). The files are name sequentially, starting from <start number for output> to <start number for output>+<number of volumes>. The file name is left zero padded to span 4 digits. Each files represent the raw data of one volume with the slices stacked in memory, as it should be. An example : 4 volumes with 8 slices per volume, the Supermosiac dicom file will look like this (volume slice) -------------------------------- | 1a | 1b | 1c || 2a | 2b | 2c | -------------------------------- | 1d | 1e | 1f || 2a | 2b | 2c | -------------------------------- | 1g | 1h | || 2a | 2b | | ================================ | 3a | 3b | 3c || 4a | 4b | 4c | -------------------------------- | 3d | 3e | 3f || 4a | 4b | 4c | -------------------------------- | 3g | 3h | || 4a | 4b | | -------------------------------- The program will generate 4 files, numbered from a given startnumber to startnumber+nr of volumes. The slices will be stacked as follows: file i ia ib ic id ie if ig ih Attention: my program does not work for inverted files. If there is need, I might program this. 2. An example linux/unix/freebsd/... shell script This script is an example of how to convert a directory of supermosaic dicom files to SPM analyze files. The only things you need to do is to install medcon (from (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmedcon/) and check out the path settings. It works perfectly on my machine ;-). !!!!!! Be sure to check the documentation in the source code and make the necessary adaptations in the software!!!!! If there are any problems or you alter/improve the source code, please contact me!!!! Pieter Vandemaele