mnc2mnc(1)

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💖 mnc2mnc(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the mnc2mnc(1) page — yes the title says mnc2mnc and the program inside calls itself mnc2nii, that's just how it is, we don't ask questions, we just vibe 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

mnc2nii — convert a MINC format file to a NIfTI-1 or Analyze format file.

it's giving glow-up for your neuroimaging files 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mnc2nii [<options>] <infile.mnc> <outfile.mnc>
mnc2nii -help

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically, the mnc2nii command converts MINC format files into either NIfTI-1 or Analyze format. and like, the NIfTI-1 format? it was developed by the members of the Neuroinformatics Technology Initiative's Data Format Working Group (DFWG). NIfTI-1 is based upon the Mayo Clinic's Analyze 7.5 format. iconic lineage fr fr 👑

the name of the program comes from the common filename suffixes used for NIfTI-1 and MINC files. NIfTI-1 defines two possible formats: a "header plus raw image" 2-file format, and a single-file format that includes both header information and the image data. as with Analyze 7.5, the 2-file format consists of one file with the suffix .hdr and another file with the extension .img. and in NIfTI-1 single-file format, those two files may be combined into a single file with a .nii filename suffix. the way that they just merge like that? obsessed ✨

and not me forgetting to mention — in addition to the NIfTI-1 formats, mnc2nii can convert MINC files to the Analyze 7.5 format too. versatile queen 💅

👑 OPTIONS 👑

okay so real talk: options can be specified in abbreviated form (as long as they are unique) and can be given anywhere on the command line. no cap. 🎀

💾 Output file format

  • -dual — save the file in NIfTI-1 two-file format (.hdr and .img)
  • -ASCII — save the file in non-standard NIfTI-1 ASCII file format
  • -nii — save the file in NIfTI-1 single-file format (.nii)
  • -analyze — save the file in Analyze 7.5 compatible format

🍓 Output voxel format

  • -float — save voxels in 32-bit floating point format
  • -double — save voxels in 64-bit floating point format
  • -byte — save voxels in 8-bit integer format
  • -short — save voxels in 16-bit integer format
  • -int — save voxels in 32-bit integer format
  • -signed — save voxels in signed (2's complement) integer format
  • -unsigned — save voxels in unsigned integer format

🌈 Other options

  • -noscanrange — don't scan data to determine valid range
  • -quiet — quiet operation, do not print progress or debugging information

🧚 Generic options for all commands

  • -help — print summary of command-line options and abort
  • -version — print the program and library versions and abort

💀 KNOWN BUGS 💀

the current handling of NIfTI-1 qform and sform coordinate transforms should probably be revised as the NIfTI group clarifies the correct usage of these fields. lowkey a work in progress, we're all just waiting on the NIfTI group to post the clarification 😭

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

  • nii2mnc

(that's the other direction bestie, go check it out 🫶)

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Robert Vincent (bert@bic.mni.mcgill.ca) with assistance from the NIfTI-1 library authored by Robert Cox et al.

📜 COPYRIGHTS 📜

Copyrights 2005 by Robert Vincent for the Montreal Neurological Institute.

aaaand that's the whole page!! 💖 this was Revision 1.3, dated Apr 22 2005, and honestly? still serving. slay, bye bestie 🎀✨🦋

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