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Not Another Neuroimaging Converter - nanconvert

Brief Description

A set of command-line tools for converting between neuroimaging data formats, using the ITK library for Input/Output, with useful features like writing out diffusion b-value files. Currently supports Bruker 2dseq and limited DICOM (GE flavor).

If you find the tools useful the author would love to hear from you.

Contact

Credit / Blame / Contact - Tobias Wood - tobias.wood@kcl.ac.uk

License

This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.

Installation

MacOS and Linux binaries are available from http://github.com/spinicist/nanconvert/releases in .tar.gz format. Unpack the archives using tar -xzf nanconvert-platform.tar.gz and move the contained files to somewhere on $PATH.

Usage

The executable nanconvert_bruker can be called to process a single Bruker 2dseq file. Specify the path to the 2dseq file itself, not the folder it resides in. Type nanconvert_bruker -h to see a full list of options.

In addition, the script nanbruker is provided which can convert multiple ParaVision datasets. Type nanbruker to see a full list of options. If nanbruker -q is called, then individual 2dseq files will be converted using jobs submitted to a Sun Grid Engine queue.