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NAME

       nifti1_test - NIfTI file conversion

SYNOPSIS

       nifti1_test [-n2|-n1|-na|-a2] infile [prefix]

DESCRIPTION

       Converts  NIfTI	files  from  and to ANALYZE 7.5 format, compressed or uncompressed NIfTI files (pair or single file). Additionally one can
       convert NIfTI headers into ASCII format for convenient manipulation of header data.

       If prefix is given, then the options mean:

       -a2 ==> write an ANALYZE 7.5 file pair: prefix.hdr/prefix.img

       -n2 ==> write a NIFTI-1 file pair: prefix.hdr/prefix.img

       -n1 ==> write a NIFTI-1 single file: prefix.nii

       -na ==> write a NIFTI-1 ASCII+binary file: prefix.nia

       -za2 => write an ANALYZE 7.5 file pair:

	      prefix.hdr.gz/prefix.img.gz

       -zn2 => write a NIFTI-1 file pair: prefix.hdr.gz/prefix.img.gz

       -zn1 => write a NIFTI-1 single file: prefix.nii.gz

       -zna => write a NIFTI-1 ASCII+binary file: prefix.nia.gz

	      The default is '-n1'.

       If prefix is not given, then the header info from infile file is printed to stdout.

       Please note that the '.nia' format is NOT part of the NIFTI-1 specification, but is provided mostly for ease of	visualization  (e.g.,  you
       can edit a .nia file and change some header fields, then rewrite it as .nii)

SEE ALSO

       libnifti(1), nifti_tool(1), nifti_stats(1).

       Homepage: http://niftilib.sourceforge.net

AUTHOR

       The NIfTI libraries were written by the NIfTI Data Format Working Group (DFWG, http://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/ ).

       This manual page was written by Michael Hanke <michael.hanke@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

Michael Hanke							  September 2007						    NIFTI1_TEST(1)

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NAME

       nifti - IO libraries and tools for the NIFTI-1 data format

DESCRIPTION

       The  NIfTI-1  data  format  is  a binary file format for storing medical image data, e.g. magnetic resonance image (MRI) and functional MRI
       (fMRI) brain images.

       The NIfTI format is an extension of the widely used ANALYZE 7.5 format. The goals of this modified data format are (1) to  add  information
       to the header that will be useful for functional neuroimaging data analysis and display. These additions include:

	      - More basic data types.
	      - Two affine transformations to specify voxel coordinates.
	      - "Intent" codes and parameters to describe the meaning of the data.
	      - Affine scaling of the stored data values to their "true" values.
	      - Optional storage of the header and image data in one file (.nii).

       And (2) To maintain compatibility with non-NIFTI-aware ANALYZE 7.5 compatible software (i.e., such a program should be able to do something
       useful with a NIFTI-1 dataset -- at least, with one stored in a traditional .img/.hdr file pair).

       The NIfTI library package consists of two libraries:

       znzlib -- low level library for handling read/write of compressed files.

       niftilib -- core i/o routines for reading and writing nifti-1 format files. Primarily routines to  read/write  and  manipulate  the  header
       field information, including orientation matrices.  Volume-wise, timecourse-wise, access to image data.

SEE ALSO

       nifti_tool(1), nifti1_test(1), nifti_stats(1).

       Homepage: http://niftilib.sourceforge.net

AUTHOR

       The NIfTI libraries were written by the NIfTI Data Format Working Group (DFWG, http://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/ ).

       This manual page was written by Michael Hanke <michael.hanke@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

Michael Hanke							    August 2006 							  NIFTI(1)