oro.dicom (version 0.2.7)

dicom2nifti: Convert DICOM Header to NIfTI

Description

A subset of header information from DICOM is placed into NIfTI-1 format.

Usage

dicom2nifti(dcm, datatype=4, units=c("mm","sec"), rescale=FALSE,
            reslice=TRUE, DIM=3, descrip="SeriesDescription",
            aux.file=NULL, ...)

Arguments

dcm

DICOM object containing both header and image information.

datatype

...

units

Spatial and temporal units for xyzt

rescale

Should slope and intercept parameters be extracted from the DICOM headers and saved?

reslice

Logical variable (default = TRUE) indicating if the data volume should be resliced.

DIM

The dimension of the array to be used (default = 3D).

descrip

DICOM header field(s) to be included in the descrip slot for the nifti class object.

aux.file

Character string to be included in the aux_file slot for the nifti class object.

...

Arguments to be passed to nifti

Value

• An object of class nifti.

Details

See the references.

References

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) http://medical.nema.org

NIfTI-1 http://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/nifti-1

See Also

dicom2analyze, nifti

Examples

dcmList <- dicomSeparate(system.file("hk-40", package="oro.dicom"))
require("oro.nifti")
dcmNifti <- dicom2nifti(dcmList, datatype=4, mode="integer")
image(dcmNifti)
orthographic(dcmNifti)