Usage: Ifile [Options] <File List>
- [-nt]: Do not use time stamp to identify complete scans.
- Complete scans are identified from ‘User Variable 17’ in the image header.
- [-sp Pattern]: Slice acquisition pattern.
- Sets the slice acquisition pattern. The default option is alt+z. See to3d -help for acceptable options.
- [-od Output_Directory]: Set the output directory in @RenamePanga.
- The default is afni .
- <File List>: Strings of wildcards defining series of
GE-Real Time (GERT) images to be assembled as an afni brick. Example: Ifile ‘/I.‘or Ifile ‘083/I.*’ ‘103/I.*’ ‘123/I.*’ ‘143/I.*’
The program attempts to identify complete scans from the list of images supplied on command line and generates the commands necessary to turn them into AFNI bricks using the script @RenamePanga. If at least one complete scan is identified, a script file named GERT_Reco is created and executing it creates the afni bricks placed in the afni directory.
It is important to preserve the file modification time info as you copy or untar the data. If you neglect to do so and fail to write down where each scan ends and/or begins, you might have a hell of a time reconstructing your data. When copying image directories, use:
cp -rp ???/* TARGET/
On Sun and SGI, tar -xf Archive.tar preserves the time info.
Out of justifiable laziness, and for other less convincing reasons, I have left Ifile and @RenamePanga separate. They can be combined into one program but it’s usage would become more complicated. At any rate, the user should not notice any difference since all they have to do is run the script GERT_reco that is created by Ifile.
Dec. 12/01 (Last modified July 24/02) SSCC/NIMH
Robert W. Cox(rwcox@nih.gov) and Ziad S. Saad (saadz@mail.nih.gov)