Hi Ged,
Thanks for that info!
> Going from DICOM to NIfTI via Analyze like this loses the orientation
> information in the DICOM fields (e.g. ImagePatientPosition, etc)
> [snip]
> Some of the direct DICOM->NIfTI programs set the NiFTI qform from the
> DICOM fields (although, when I checked this, a couple of them were
> inconsistent, so do take care!) I think these programs try this:
> - dcm2nii
> - SPM5 DICOM import
> - dinifti
> - possibly LONI Debabaler and others
> Links to all these are at the bottom of Chris Rorden's dcm2nii page:
> http://www.sph.sc.edu/comd/rorden/mricron/dcm2nii.html
I have tried a few of these, but most of them seem to expect volume/4D
files to begin with or simply didn't work. In the DICOMDIR setting,
scripting it together and having medcon make the volumes, was the best
way I could convert whole batches of files from a CD.
Plus, are you sure that these programs estimate the position of a volume
using the positions of individual slices?
I tried the links, but none of them actually gave useful information in
terms of: this is your DICOM cd, and this is how you rip your volumes
off it...
Any advice is still much appreciated, and if those programs really come
up with Q-forms from slice data, I'm very impressed!
bw
Alle Meije
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