I'm not entirely sure why it didn't work. Sometimes images are not proper tomographic images, in which case SPM should (I think) give a warning message about not being able to convert them. Either way, I'd suggest looking at the MATLAB window to see if there are any warnings.

It's also possible that Philips is using some features of DICOM that are too new for SPM to support. DICOM is a very large and complicated data format (there are thousands of pages of documentation), so there are sometimes versions that SPM can't deal with. However, there are loads of DICOM converters out there, which may do the job. I'd suggest a search for DICOM at http://www.idoimaging.com/ . Alyternatively, you could have a look for DICOM to NIfTI converters at http://www.nitrc.org/ .

Best regards,

-John

On 5 December 2014 at 17:43, LAOUCHEDI MAKHLOUF <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi
i have a dataset of 128 dicom Philips spect images (H:\patient\some_name_i.dcm) that i try to convert to nifti files (i have instaled spm12 on a windows platform). i followed the steps for this purpose, starting with selecting the 128 dcm files, then choosing the output directory (D:\spm_out) then selecting NIFTI and no ICEDims, i pushed the button "run batch", it started doing something but no file was converted ?

Thanks