Modules:DicomToNRRD-3.4 - Revision history

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     format for analysis in Slicer. This program has been tested on only
     a limited subset of DTI dicom formats available from Siemens, GE,
-    and Phillips scanners. It does not yet support dicom multi-frame
+    and Phillips scanners. Work in progress to support dicom multi-frame
     data. The program parses dicom header to extract necessary
     information about measurement frame, diffusion weighting directions,

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 format for analysis in Slicer. This program has been tested on only
 a limited subset of DTI dicom formats available from Siemens, GE,
-and Phillips scanners. It does not yet support dicom multi-frame
+and Phillips scanners. Work in progress to support dicom multi-frame
 data. The program parses dicom header to extract necessary
 information about measurement frame, diffusion weighting directions,

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	Category: Converters		Category: Converters
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		+	{\|
		+	\|[[Image:DWIDicomToNrrdGUI.jpg\|thumb\|280px\|Screenshot of the UI]]
		+	\|}

	===Authors, Collaborators & Contact===		===Authors, Collaborators & Contact===

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 == Usage ==
 <pre>
 ./DicomToNrrdConverter --help

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       Echo the command line arguments (default: 0)
-    --useIdentityMeaseurementFrame
+    --useIdentityMeaseurementFrame (advanced option, use default)
       Adjust all the gradients so that the measurement frame is an identity
       matrix. (default: 0)
-    --writeProtocolGradientsFile
+    --writeProtocolGradientsFile (advanced option, for debug)
       Write the protocol gradients to a file suffixed by '.txt' as they were
       specified in the procol by multiplying each diffusion gradient
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       debugging of new dicom formats is necessary. (default: 0)
-    --useLPS
+    --useLPS (advanced option, use default)
       For GE data only.  Specifies that the output should be in LPS space
       like the original DICOM data.  The default is to use Slicer3

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                                          [--processinformationaddress
                                          <std::string>] [--xml] [--echo]
-                                         [--] [--version] [-h] <std::string>
+                                         [--useIdentityMeaseurementFrame]
-                                         <std::string>
+                                        [--writeProtocolGradientsFile]
+                                        [--useLPS] [--outputVolume
 Where:
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     --echo
       Echo the command line arguments (default: 0)
     --,  --ignore_rest
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       Displays usage information and exits.
-   <std::string>
+    Description: Converts diffusion weighted MR images in dicom series into Nrrd
-     (required)  Directory holding Dicom series
+    format for analysis in Slicer. This program has been tested on only
+   a limited subset of DTI dicom formats available from Siemens, GE,
-   <std::string>
+   and Phillips scanners. It does not yet support dicom multi-frame
-     (required)  Nrrd header file name
+   data. The program parses dicom header to extract necessary
+   information about measurement frame, diffusion weighting directions,
+   b-values, etc, and write out a nrrd image.
     Author(s): Xiaodong Tao
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     Image Computing (NAMIC), funded by the National Institutes of Health
     through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, Grant U54 EB005149.
 </pre>

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 Type: Command line module
-Category: Converter
+Category: Converters
 ===Authors, Collaborators & Contact===

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 ===Module Description===
-This module converts Diffusion weighted MR images in Dicom format into
+This module converts diffusion weighted MR images in dicom series into Nrrd
-NRRD format. The module assumes that the reference space for dicom is
+format for analysis in Slicer. This program has been tested on only
-always RAS. Currently, the module supports GE format, Simens mosaic and
+a limited subset of DTI dicom formats available from Siemens, GE,
-split formats, and Philips format.
+and Phillips scanners. It does not yet support dicom multi-frame
 == Usage ==

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 ===Authors, Collaborators & Contact===
-* Author: Xiaodong Tao (with contribution form Vince Magnotta)
+* Author: Xiaodong Tao (with contribution from Vince Magnotta and Hans Johnson)
 * Contact: taox @ research.ge.com

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 __NOTOC__
 ===Module Name===
-Dicom to NRRD converter for diffusion weighted imaging
+DWI Dicom To NRRD
 == General Information ==