Thanks Doug,

The answer is yes, I can convert to NIfTY with using MRIcro (DCM2nii) and then use mri_convert to convert to mgz but, how can I be sure that this will not change the handedness???'

Bests,
Gabriel
 





> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 10:59:56 -0500
> From: greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
> To: gabriellbk@hotmail.com
> CC: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] mri_convert problem
>
> There is a tag in this file that our DICOM reader does not recognize:
>
> 280092 DCM Unrecognized VR code (??) in readVRLength
>
> Unfortunately, we're using a 3rd party dicom reader that is quite
> brittle, and I don't know a way around it. Can you convert to nifti
> using MRIcro and then use mri_convert to convert to mgz?
>
> doug
>
> Gabriel Go.Es. wrote:
> >
> > Dear FS users
> >
> > I'm using FS v5 to convert some dicom images to mgz running the comand:
> >
> > mri_convert -it dicom -ot mgz 000001.DCM 001.mgz
> >
> > And get the error:
> >
> > ERROR:
> > /root/trabajo/freesurfer/subjects/sujeto1/mri/orig/MPRAGE1/000001.DCM
> > is not a dicom file
> >
> > But when I try to open the file in MRIcro it is a dicom (philips) file
> > (see attached file), can any one help me with this?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Gabriel
> >
> >
> >
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