[Insight-developers] Is there a definitive list of File type suffixes?

[Mark Foskey]

No, you were right, the "a" in "mha" means "apart".  I thought Jim was
joking about that, and even sent him a response that was meant to be 
lighthearted but was probably only confusing.  (Sorry, Jim.)

Luis Ibanez wrote:
 >
 > Hmmm,
 >
 > I probably got the (mha, mhd) order wrong....
 >
 > Also I think DICOM is selected with the extension ".dcm".
 >
 >
 > Luis
 >
 >
 > ----------------------------------------
 >
 > Miller, James V (Research) wrote:
 >
 >> I thought mha was "all" (header and data) in one file :)
 >>
 >> DICOM is not triggered by extension but if we do a DICOM
 >> write it will be.
 >>
 >> Eventually, we'll have jpg, jpeg, (and probably tif, tiff)
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>> -----Original Message-----
 >>> From: Luis Ibanez [mailto:luis.ibanez@kitware.com]
 >>> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 10:18 AM
 >>> To: Kent Williams
 >>> Cc: Insight Developers List
 >>> Subject: Re: [Insight-developers] Is there a definitive list of File
 >>> type suffixes?
 >>>
 >>>
 >>> Hi Kent,
 >>>
 >>> That's good point,
 >>>
 >>> We don't have a centralized list of file extensions.
 >>> They are buried now in the code of each ImageIO.
 >>>
 >>> Let's try to reconstruct the list here:
 >>>
 >>> 1) .mhd  = MetaImage single file
 >>> 2) .mha  = MetaImage (header + raw) 2 files
 >>> 3) .vtk  = VTK format
 >>> 4) .gipl = GIPL
 >>> 5) .raw  = RAW format (I suggest we deprecate this one...)
 >>> 6)  ???  = VOL
 >>> 7)  ???  = Analyze
 >>> 8) .png  = PNG format
 >>> 9) .pgm  = PGM format (to be converted in an ImageIO class)
 >>>
 >>> 10)   other ?
 >>>
 >>>
 >>> Please if someone can help to fill in the blanks,
 >>> that will be great.
 >>>
 >>>
 >>>    Luis
 >>>
 >>>
 >>> -------------------------------------------------------
 >>> Kent Williams wrote:
 >>>
 >>>> I'm getting ready to add a new image file format for Octree
 >>>
 >>> encoded images.
 >>>
 >>>> We're still working out what the internal file format
 >>>
 >>> organization, but I had
 >>>
 >>>> a simple question:  So as to not confuse ImageIO, we need
 >>>
 >>> to choose a file
 >>>
 >>>> extension distinct from all the others supported.  Is there
 >>>
 >>> a list somewhere
 >>>
 >>>> of all the filetype extensions?
 >>>>
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