Reading NIFTI (MRI) files in Labview

Hi everybody,
Looking for any cue on how to work with NIFTI (*.nii) files in labview to make a brain atlas explorator based on MRI.
Thnaks for sharing,
Olivier

Hi,
LabVIEW does not have built in functionality for .nii files however I was checking in here that the file type uses a ANALYZE 7.5 format so, I thought the answer to this dilemma was to find a way to change the file into something that LabVIEW can read and I ran into this page. If you can successfully transform the file into a comma delimited text file you will be able to use the read/write from/to spreadsheet VIs.
Another possibility is to setup a communication channel to the MRI hardware through TCP/IP or any other method supported.
I hope this helps
Alejandro | Academic Program Engineer | National Instruments

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> using dots instead of commas. Is there a way of converting this in
> labVIEW, or how can I get the program to enterpret the figures in the
> correct way?
>
> The program doest enterpret my figures from the text file in the
> correct way since the numbers contain dots instea
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