The latest release of oro.nifti (0.1.4) has been released on CRAN.  New features include:Added text capability in the (unused) fourth pane in orthographic()A vignette is now included (taken from dcemriS4) [Read more...]

The latest version of oro.dicom (0.2.5) has been released on CRAN.  New features include:Added "mosaic" capability when creating 3D arrays from DICOMdicomTable() now accepts single DICOM fileBetter handling of SequenceItem tags when reading in DIC... [Read more...]

Siemens multi-slice EPI data may be collected as a "mosiac" image; i.e., all slices acquired in a single TR (repitition time) of a functional MRI run are stored in a single DICOM file.  The images are stored in an MxN array of images.  The function create3D() will try ... [Read more...]

Now that the two packages oro.dicom and oro.nifti have been released, we can put them together and perform the much sought after conversion from DICOM format to NIfTI format (entirely in R).  Why?  Because DICOM is the international "standard" for medical imaging data coming off the scanners, but ... [Read more...]

The R package oro.nifti has been released.  Medical imaging data, in NIfTI or Analyze formats, may be input, created from scratch, converted from DICOM (using oro.dicom) and output to a file.  [Read more...]

The R package oro.dicom is a major revision, and improvement, on the previous package DICOM.  New features include Increased speed Uploading only header information (for restricted memory) Reading implicit value representations (VR's) Parsing SequenceItem tags (undefined lengths are allowed) Integration with oro.nifti to convert DICOM to NIfTI Provided ... [Read more...]

With the NIfTI-1 header extensions the world is your oyster.  We decided that one use for such a capability is to keep an audit trail of all operations performed on the image data volume.  This is a key feature in the dcemriS4 package.  ... [Read more...]

The dcemriS4 package allows one to easily import and display NIfTI-1 class data sets. The following code takes the MNI152 brain atlas from the WWW and produces an orthographic display using the mid-axial, mid-sagittal and mid-coronal planes. [Read more...]