ASCII_TO_MRI
Conversion of MRI data from Text to Binary Format

ASCII_TO_MRI is a C program which reads a file containing MRI information in ASCII text format, and restores it to its original binary format.

Usually, the ASCII data was created by the program mri_to_ascii, after which it may have been modified in some way, and now needs to be rewritten into the MRI format.

Usage:

ascii_to_mri prefix

• prefix.txt is the ASCII text file containing the MRI information.
• prefix.dat is the name of the file into which the program should place the binary version of the MRI information.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

ASCII_TO_MRI is available in a C version.

Related Data and Programs:

ascii_to_mri_test, a C program which tests ascii_to_mri.

MRI_TO_ASCII, a C program which converts binary MRI information to ASCII text format.

MRI_TO_PGM, a C program which converts binary MRI information to a sequence of PGM graphics files.

PGH_MRI, a data directory which contains examples of PGH MRI files, a format for storing brain scan data gathered by magnetic resonance imaging;

Source Code:

• ascii_to_mri.h, the include file.
• ascii_to_mri.c, converts data from ASCII to MRI format.
• timestamp.c, prints the YMDHMS date as a timestamp.