Hi,
You can load a vtc file into Matlab. If you download the BVXQtools and add them to your Matlab toolboxes, you can use the following command within Matlab
vtc = BVQXfile('*.vtc')
I have done that already. I don't know about the other file formats.
Bärbel
-----Original Message-----
From: SPM (Statistical Parametric Mapping) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Ashburner
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 7:56 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [SPM] import BrainVoyager files
I have it on good authority that there is a plugin for BrainVoyager
that will convert the various file formats into NIfTI, but it probably
wouldn't help you so much because the plugins use various libraries
from BV itself.
http://support.brainvoyager.com/available-tools/49-available-plugins/166-nifti-conversion-volumetric-files.html
Alternatively, you may be able to do something with the BVXQtools from
http://support.brainvoyager.com/available-tools/52-matlab-tools-bvxqtools.html
.
I haven't tried any of these, so can't comment much more.
The par/rec files are in a format used by Philips scanners (when they
are not written out as DICOM). There are various converters around,
but you may wish to try this one (which is linked from our spm
extensions web page): http://r2agui.sourceforge.net/
Best regards,
-John
2010/11/3 Bányai Mihály <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dear SPM crowd,
>
> I just recieved a dataset that's been processed by BrainVoyager. Is
> there a way to convert the BV files into SPM or standard Matlab
> binary/text files? Unfortunately I don't have the BV software itself.
> The data is in the following formats:
>
> .stc, .vtc and .fmr files and
> .PAR and .REC files
>
> I don't really know how BV-specific they are, but I didn't find any
> standard conversion with Google. I use SPM8.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Mihály Bányai
> .
>
