[FieldTrip] Problems reading in DICOM

[Eelke Spaak]

Dear Markus,

There have been several changes to ft_read_mri over the past 1,5 year.
The first step I would suggest is to update your fieldtrip version to
something more recent, perhaps that solves the problem
'automatically'.

Best,
Eelke

On 13 March 2013 12:11, Markus Butz <Markus.Butz at uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I am experiencing problems reading in external MRI in DICOM format from a CD
> (doing it the first time though).
> I wanted to do it the new and easy way as described here:
> http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/faq/how_can_i_convert_an_anatomical_mri_from_dicom_into_ctf_format?s[]=dicom
>
> % read the DICOM files
> mri = ft_read_mri('single_file_of_DICOM_series.IMA');
>
> However, I have no single slices with extension *.ima but one dataset with
> the extension *.dcm and the other dataset with no extension for the single
> slice files. I am also not sure where to copy the DICOMDIR file.
>
> When I try to open a single file of the *.dcm series I get:
>
> mri = ft_read_mri('508652C3.dcm');
>
> ??? Undefined function or variable "hdr".
>
> Error in ==> ft_read_mri at 216
>   hdr     = hdr(keep);
>
> Trying to read in a single file of the no extension series I get:
>
> mri = ft_read_mri('73850486');
>
> ??? Error using ==> dicominfo at 41
> The specified file is not in DICOM format
>
> The Image Processing toolbox V 7.2 is installed and this is
> fieldtrip-20111101.
>
> Any help appreciated!
>
> Markus
>
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