The orientation flag was not found. This is an important piece of infomation that should be in the header. Have these dicoms been anonymized? Alternatively, is this may be a newer version of dicom that we are not reading properly yet.

Hi,

I am preprocessing my fMRI data acquired with Philips. when I using the command 'dcmunpack -src . -targ sess01 -run 101 bold nii f.nii .....'

The error occurred likes below:

Found 31 total files.

Found 12 unique series: 0 101 301 401 501 601 701 801 901 1001 1101 1201

Subject xxx

Date xxx

Time 110223

Institution xxxxx.

0 Survey unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown ./PS_0002

101 Survey unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown 140 ./XX_0003

301 T1W_3D_TFE_ref unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown 190 ./IM_0004

401 FE_EPI unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown 2835 ./XX_0007

501 FE_EPI_EX1 unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown 2835 ./IM_0008

601 FE_EPI_EX2 unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown 2835 ./IM_0011

701 FE_EPI_EX3 unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown 2835 ./IM_0013

801 FE_EPI_EX4 unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown 2835 ./XX_0016

901 FE_EPI_EX5 unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown 2835 ./XX_0018

1001 FE_EPI_EX6 unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown 2835 ./IM_0019

1101 FE_EPI_EX7 unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown 2835 ./XX_0022

1201 FE_EPI_EX8 unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown 2835 ./XX_0024

mri_convert ./XX_0003 ./bold/101/f.nii --nskip 0 --ndrop 0 

nskip = 0

ndrop = 0

$Id: mri_convert.c,v 1.179.2.7 2012/09/05 21:55:16 mreuter Exp $

reading from ./XX_0003...

Starting DICOMRead2()

dcmfile = ./XX_0003

dcmdir = .

WARNING: tag image orientation not found in ./XX_0003

Ref Series No = 101

ERROR: bits = 0 not supported.

My os is Linux 16.04 and the Freesurfer's version is 5.3.

 

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