[Insight-users] alternative MINC1/2 interface

[Sean McBride]

On 6/5/09 4:14 PM, Vladimir FONOV said:

>we have developed an alternative (to the one currently included in ITK 
>distribution) interface for reading and writing files in MINC1 and MINC2 
>format.

Very interesting.

Reading MINC1 files is something VTK can do but ITK cannot, it would be
nice to rectify that.

>The main difference with the existent code is following:
>
>1. MINC1 API is used ( compatible with both MINC1 and MINC2 file format)
>2. 4D ( DTI, vector fields) are handled properly
>3. Information from the minc header is stored in metadata
>4. there is a limited support for the XFM files ( files describing the 
>deformations).

That sounds great!

The current MINC2 stuff in Review seems to be lacking love from the
community (ourselves included).  Since you seem to work at the MNI,
yours is probably a better way forward.

>Building instructions:

We'll give it try on Mac OS X....

Cheers,

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