Convert a numeric type code into the image data type specifier used in MriImage objects.
Usage
getDataTypeByNiftiCode(code)
Arguments
code
A numeric value indicating the data type code required. Supported values in TractoR are 2 (8 bit unsigned integer), 4 (16 bit signed integer), 8 (32 bit signed integer), 16 (32 bit floating point), 64 (64 bit floating point), 256 (8 bit signed integer), 5
Value
A list with the following elements
typeAn Rstorage mode, either integer or double.
sizeThe number of bytes per voxel in this data type.
isSignedLogical value indicating whether data values are signed.
See Also
MriImage, and the NIfTI-1 standard (http://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/nifti-1).
