rmincIO-package: Read and Write MINC2 Volumes Using S4 Objects
In jnikelski/rmincIO: Package for reading and writing MINC2 files

The primary purpose of this package is to provide a very easy to use interface for reading and writing minc2 volumes.

Package:	rmincIO
Type:	Package
Version:	1.0
Date:	2010-04-26
License:	BSD
LazyLoad:	yes

This package provide the user with an easy to use interface by which to manipulate minc2 volumes. IO can be performed at 3 levels of granularity: (1) volume, (2) slice, and (3) voxel. It is expected that most commonly IO would be performed at the volume level, in which either an entire 3D volume or one 3D frame within a 4D volume is read into an internal object containing a 3D array.

As volume resolution and the number of volumes to be read increases, so does the memory footprint of those internal structures required to hold the data. In order to cope with this situation, the slice level granularity functions were created. As this level of IO is performed at the slice level, many more volumes or frames can be loaded within a unified data structure, without running out of memory. The resultant object is structured an an M x N matrix, with M voxels per slice, and N slices. The mincIO.getSliceFromSliceArray function can be used to convert a specific slice within the slice matrix into a slice object, for visualization, or for subsequently transferring to an output volume.

Jim Nikelski Maintainer: Jim Nikelski nikelski@bic.mni.mcgill.ca

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