Have you tried MRIConvert/mcverter (http://lcni.uoregon.edu/~jolinda/MRIConvert/)? I would be curious to see whether our program can handle your data. You could also try dcmtk's dcmdump to see whether it can figure out your data. Chuck On 8/16/2013 10:09 AM, John Ashburner wrote: > If the scanner that the images were collected on was a model from > before about 1993, then I'd guess that the files are in some form of > the old ACR-NEMA format, possibly with Siemens' SPI extensions. I > can't really help with format conversion here, unless you happen to be > working on a very ancient Sun SPARC computer from about the same > period. Perhaps some of the software from here could help: > > http://www.idoimaging.com/programs?readfmt=4&order=program.percentile > > Best regards, > -John > > > > On 16 August 2013 17:35, Derek Jones <[log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > > I have a CD's of some images that were burned from our radiology > department (Scanner manufacturer: Siemens). Our issue is related > to file conversion. > > SPM8 is unable to determine the file format and will not execute > "DICOM import". "DICOM to ANALYZE" (a program we usually use to > convert) will not make the conversion. > > In addition, other programs (MRIcroN) also fail to recognize these > images as DICOM. > > We can VIEW the images in MRIcro, but it is unclear whether it > recognizes them as DICOM or some other file format. Also if > converting in MRIcro, the Analyze files are unreadable in spm8 and > MRIcroN (just noise) > > Has anyone else encountered a similar issue? > > When DICOM images are packaged, are they modified in any way? Are > these in fact DICOM images? > > Thanks, > Derek > > -- Chuck Theobald System Administrator The Robert and Beverly Lewis Center for Neuroimaging University of Oregon P: 541-346-0343 F: 541-346-0345