Want dicom info?

Siemens encodes a lot of scanning parameters in the image files in a binary format, which is incompatible with dicom protocol.  Even if you have a set of dicom tools, you still cannot extract those information, like TR, TE, TI, dwell time, slice size, location, and orientation, and bandwidth etc.

To overcome this, I made a perl script that can decode the Siemens MRI dicom file header, and dump it into a text file.  In which, you can just open by a plain text editor and search for the information you need.

This little tool is now available on node13, named siemens_info.  You can have a try.

An AFNI tool named siemens_vision can process .ima file, probably doing similar thing.