DICOM to NIFTI

NIFTI: NeuroInFormatics Technology Initiative (.nii)

• Being able to be read across several platforms (SPM, FSL, AFNI…)

 

Step 1: MRI cron

- MRIcron is a suite of packages which includes "dcm2nii" (converting scanner images (DICOM) to NIfTI format. Allows program like MRIcron, FSL, and SPM5 to view scans.)

 

1) Google mricron

2) Click "MRIcron Index Page"

3) Click installation link and follow the instructions according to your computer platform

4) Open the "dcm2niigui" program

5) Drop-down menu which allows you to specify the output format that you want your files in.

6) Under the "help" --> "preferences" options

-You are able to specify what info you want to be prepended to your NIfTY file

- Uncheck everything except for the acquisition series

- This makes the resulting output filename much easier to read

7) Now we have DICOM-NIfTY setup, all we need is some raw fMRI data to convert. 

8) Within the folder, text file gives info about each run.