{"id":3,"date":"2008-05-08T16:29:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T20:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitc.bme.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/?p=3"},"modified":"2008-05-08T16:29:05","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T20:29:05","slug":"want-dicom-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"Want dicom info?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Siemens encodes a lot of scanning parameters in the image files in a binary format, which is incompatible with dicom protocol.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>To overcome this, I made a perl script that can decode the Siemens MRI dicom file header, and dump it into a text file.\u00a0 In which, you can just open by a plain text editor and search for the information you need.<\/p>\n<p>This little tool is now available on node13, named siemens_info.\u00a0 You can have a try.<\/p>\n<p>An AFNI tool named siemens_vision can process .ima file, probably doing similar thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siemens encodes a lot of scanning parameters in the image files in a binary format, which is incompatible with dicom protocol.\u00a0 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mri-technical-support","post-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}