NAME¶

mincconcat - concatenate minc files along a specific dimension

SYNOPSIS¶

mincconcat [<options>] <infile1>.mnc [<infile2>.mnc ...] <outfile>.mnc

DESCRIPTION¶

Mincconcat will concatenate a number of minc files together, producing a single output file. The concatenation is done along a specified dimension, with the slices being sorted into ascending order. The concatenation dimension can either be a dimension in the file, in which case coordinates for sorting are taken directly from the input files, or it can be a new dimension and the coordinates are specified with a command-line option.

OPTIONS¶

Note that options can be specified in abbreviated form (as long as they are unique) and can be given anywhere on the command line.

General options¶

-2

Create a MINC 2.0 format output file.

-clobber

Overwrite an existing file.

-noclobber

Don't overwrite an existing file (default).

-verbose

Print out progress information for each chunk of data copied (default).

-quiet

Do not print out progress information.

-max_chunk_size_in_kb size

Specify the maximum size of the copy buffer (in kbytes). Default is 4096 kbytes.

-filelist filename

Specify a file containing a list of input file names. If "-" is given, then file names are read from stdin. If this option is given, then there should be no input file names specified on the command line. Empty lines in the input file are ignored.

Output type options¶

-filetype

Don't do any type conversion (default).

-byte

Write out 8-bit integer voxels.

-short

Write out 16-bit integer voxels.

-int

Write out 32-bit integer voxels.

-long

Superseded by -int.

-float

Write out single-precision floating point values.

-double

Write out double-precision floating point values.

-signed

Write out values as signed integers (default for short and long). Ignored for floating point types.

-unsigned

Write out values as unsigned integers (default for byte). Ignored for floating point types.

-valid_range min max

Specifies the valid range of output voxel values in their integer representation. Default is the full range for the type and sign. This option is ignored for floating point values.

Concatenation options¶

-concat_dimension name

Specifies the name of concatenation dimension. If the dimension exists in the input files, then coordinates are taken from those files. If not, then a new dimension is created and the coordinate for each input file is taken from command-line options. The default is to use the slowest varying dimension of the first file.

-start start

Specifies the starting coordinate for the new dimension (default = 0.0).

-step step

Specifies the separation between voxels for the new dimension (default = 1.0).

-width width

Specifies the (constant) width of each sample along the new dimension (default = none).

-coordlist c1,c2,...

Specifies a comma-separated list of coordinates along the new dimension.

-widthlist w1,w2,...

Specifies a comma-separated list of widths along the new dimension.

-filestarts s1,s2,...

Specifies a comma-separated list of offsets to the coordinate origins for each of the files listed on the command line. This option is useful for concatenating files along an existing dimension, for example for concatenating multiple functional runs along a time dimension.

-check_dimensions

Check that all input files have matching sampling in world dimensions (default).

-nocheck_dimensions

Ignore any differences between input files in world dimensions sampling.

-ascending

Sort coordinates in ascending order (default).

-descending

Sort coordinates in descending order.

-interleaved

Sort slabs by their dimension coordinate, interleaving if necessary (default).

-sequential

Don't sort slabs, just concatenate them together. WARNING - this will destroy the dimension information along the concatenating dimension, replacing the start and step with zero and one.

Generic options for all commands:¶

-help

Print summary of command-line options and exit.

-version

Print the program's version number and exit.

EXAMPLES¶

To concatenate two volumes with dimensions zspace, yspace, xspace, having interleaved slices along zspace, we can simply use

mincconcat input1.mnc input2.mnc output.mnc

If we have a bunch of compressed (yspace, xspace) images that we wish to concatenate into an evenly spaced volume, then we can type

mincconcat input1.mnc.gz input2.mnc.gz input3.mnc.gz \
input4.mnc.gz output.mnc \
-concat_dimension zspace -start -23 -step 2

AUTHOR¶

Peter Neelin

COPYRIGHTS¶

Copyright © 1995 by Peter Neelin