NAME

       nifti - IO libraries and tools for the NIFTI-1 data format

DESCRIPTION

       The  NIfTI-1  data format is a binary file format for storing medical image data, e.g. magnetic resonance
       image (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI) brain images.

       The NIfTI format is an extension of the widely used ANALYZE 7.5 format. The goals of this  modified  data
       format  are  (1)  to  add  information to the header that will be useful for functional neuroimaging data
       analysis and display. These additions include:

              - More basic data types.
              - Two affine transformations to specify voxel coordinates.
              - "Intent" codes and parameters to describe the meaning of the data.
              - Affine scaling of the stored data values to their "true" values.
              - Optional storage of the header and image data in one file (.nii).

       And (2) To maintain compatibility with non-NIFTI-aware ANALYZE 7.5  compatible  software  (i.e.,  such  a
       program  should  be  able to do something useful with a NIFTI-1 dataset -- at least, with one stored in a
       traditional .img/.hdr file pair).

       The NIfTI library package consists of two libraries:

       znzlib -- low level library for handling read/write of compressed files.

       niftilib -- core i/o routines for reading  and  writing  nifti-1  format  files.  Primarily  routines  to
       read/write  and  manipulate  the  header field information, including orientation matrices.  Volume-wise,
       timecourse-wise, access to image data.

SEE ALSO

       nifti_tool(1), nifti1_test(1), nifti_stats(1).

       Homepage: http://niftilib.sourceforge.net

AUTHOR

       The NIfTI libraries were written by the NIfTI Data Format Working Group (DFWG, http://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/
       ).

       This  manual page was written by Michael Hanke <michael.hanke@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may
       be used by others).