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Jul 14, 2022 05:07 PM | nitrle3
missing b0 image
Hello!
As a preface, I am new to DTI (imaging in general), and I have very little coding experience.
Anyway, I have been converting the Bruker Enhanced DICOM images to NifTI, and it keeps warning me that the b0 images are missing. Those images were definitely acquired, so I was wondering if this was a larger issue with Bruker DICOMs in general? Is there a way to add them to an existing image series?
Thank you in advance.
As a preface, I am new to DTI (imaging in general), and I have very little coding experience.
Anyway, I have been converting the Bruker Enhanced DICOM images to NifTI, and it keeps warning me that the b0 images are missing. Those images were definitely acquired, so I was wondering if this was a larger issue with Bruker DICOMs in general? Is there a way to add them to an existing image series?
Thank you in advance.
Jul 14, 2022 06:07 PM | Chris Rorden
RE: missing b0 image
See issue 265
https://github.com/rordenlab/dcm2niix/issues/265
I spent a tremendous amount of time trying to reverse engineer this. Last I checked, Bruker "DICOMs" were underspecified to accurately extract FSL format b-vectors, as I noted "Be aware that my prior concern regarding the vectors [1,0,0] and [-1,0,0] creating the same BMatrix still holds."
I really do not know how to proceed, Bruker's proprietary format is a mess with well documented contradictions and blatant errors. I recognize that DICOM is a very complicated format, but if Bruker is unable to support it appropriately perhaps they should consider exporting directly to a simpler format like NIfTI.
You have purchased a professional product, and I would ask the manufacturer to honor their DICOM conformance statement. I am happy for users or Bruker engineers to contribute pull requests to the dcm2niix project.
https://github.com/rordenlab/dcm2niix/issues/265
I spent a tremendous amount of time trying to reverse engineer this. Last I checked, Bruker "DICOMs" were underspecified to accurately extract FSL format b-vectors, as I noted "Be aware that my prior concern regarding the vectors [1,0,0] and [-1,0,0] creating the same BMatrix still holds."
I really do not know how to proceed, Bruker's proprietary format is a mess with well documented contradictions and blatant errors. I recognize that DICOM is a very complicated format, but if Bruker is unable to support it appropriately perhaps they should consider exporting directly to a simpler format like NIfTI.
You have purchased a professional product, and I would ask the manufacturer to honor their DICOM conformance statement. I am happy for users or Bruker engineers to contribute pull requests to the dcm2niix project.
