Dear coders among you SPMers,
I am writing a tool that I want to autimatically recognize whether it
deals with analyze 7.5 or nifti data, when it is given a filename.
Sometimes that is easily determined from the file extention, when it is
given a *.nii file. When however an *.img or *.hdr file is provided, it
can be both analyze or nifti, because the latter format comes in both
flavours.
I was hoping that this information would have been stored in the header
file.
In the documentation of the nifti specs at
http://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/nifti-1/documentation/nifti1fields
I did not find a field that, to my knowlegde, uniqely specifies a file
as nifti or analyze.
Perhaps the NIFTIINTENT code is useful, but it is unused in Analyze so
it could theoretically be anything there and mess up automatic
recognition.
Perhaps some of you encountered the same issue and can give me some
hints to a method that works. I would rather not have the user have to
specify the file format.
Regards,
Bas
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