About

dcm_qa_uih is a simple DICOM to NIfTI validator script and dataset. This repository is similar to dcm_qa, but includes data from United Imaging Healthcare ("UIH") MRI scanners.

License

This software and images are open source and were acquired by Shan C Young of United Imaging Healthcare. The the code is covered by the 2-clause BSD license.

Versions

2-October-2018

• Initial public release

Running

Assuming that the executable dcm2niix is in your path, you should be able to simply run the script batch.sh from the terminal.

If you have problems you can edit the first few lines of the batch.sh script so that basedir reports the explicit location of the dcm_qa folder (by default this is assumed to be the folder containing the script) on your computer and exenam reports the explicit location of dcm2niix (by default it is assumed to be in your path). Also, make sure the script is executable (chmod +x batch.sh). Then run the script.

Updating dcm_qa_uih

This software reports when there are any changes in behavior of the software. However, some of these changes might be improvements. For example, software which supports future BIDS tags will report differences relative to the prior solutions reported in dcm_qa_nih. Once the solutions have been verified as correct, one needs to update both dcm_qa_nih and the software that invokes dcm_qa_nih. For example, with dcm2niix we can update it to use the latest version of dcm_qa with this script:

cd dcm2niix
git submodule update --remote
git commit -am 'Update dcm_qa_uih submodule.'
git push

Useful Links

• dcm2niix's handling of these files is described here.
• Discussion of the current features of this format are described here.