[Neuroimaging] Reading FreeSurfer m3z files?

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

That bit of code is verrry short - I guess it's a very simple format.
 It should be pretty easy to implement.

Cheers,

Matthew

On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 8:09 PM Noam Peled <peled.noam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't know any python library that can read those files. I attached a Matlab file that reads m3z files. You can also find it here:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/msg51239.html
>
>  If you convert it to Python, let me know :)
>
> Best,
> Noam
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 8:07 AM Tim Schäfer <ts+ml at rcmd.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> does anybody know of a Python library which can read FreeSurfer m3z files, like <subject>/mri/transforms/talairach.m3z?
>>
>> These are binary files encoding a dense vector field for a 3D registration. The format seems to be a custom FreeSurfer format, but I'm not 100% sure on that. (The respective function in FreeSurfer is called GCAMwrite [1], and there is a Matlab implementation that is called mris_write_m3z [2], it seems.)
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> --
>> Tim
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/freesurfer/freesurfer/blob/dev/utils/gcamorph.c
>> [2] https://github.com/freesurfer/freesurfer/blob/dev/matlab/mris_write_m3z.m
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