mgz or mgh files

[Jared Tanner]

Hi,

We are planning on running our MRI brains through FreeSurfer, which creates .mgz (gzipped .mgh) files. In the event that the automatic segmentation is poor, we want to load the masks into ITK-SNAP for cleanup. Does ITK-SNAP open either of these file types? If not, is there a converter program someone has used to convert from .mgz to .nii?

Thanks,

Jared

[Paul Yushkevich]

Jared,

FreeSurfer has a very nice converted mriconvert (or mri_convert ?)
that can go from their native format to NIFTI and back

Paul;

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Paul A. Yushkevich, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Penn Image Computing and Science Laboratory
Department of Radiology
University of Pennsylvania

[Jared Tanner]

Thanks, we'll give that a try.

Jared