[Insight-developers] Is there a definitive list of File type suffixes?

[Stephen R. Aylward]

Hi

mha = all (header and data)

mhd = header only

Reality is that the internal tags have the ultimate say on where the 
data is, but the above is how I designed things...

Stephen


Mark Foskey wrote:
> No, you were right, the "a" in "mha" means "apart".  I thought Jim was
> joking about that, and even sent him a response that was meant to be 
> lighthearted but was probably only confusing.  (Sorry, Jim.)
> 
> Luis Ibanez wrote:
>  >
>  > Hmmm,
>  >
>  > I probably got the (mha, mhd) order wrong....
>  >
>  > Also I think DICOM is selected with the extension ".dcm".
>  >
>  >
>  > Luis
>  >
>  >
>  > ----------------------------------------
>  >
>  > Miller, James V (Research) wrote:
>  >
>  >> I thought mha was "all" (header and data) in one file :)
>  >>
>  >> DICOM is not triggered by extension but if we do a DICOM
>  >> write it will be.
>  >>
>  >> Eventually, we'll have jpg, jpeg, (and probably tif, tiff)
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>> -----Original Message-----
>  >>> From: Luis Ibanez [mailto:luis.ibanez@kitware.com]
>  >>> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 10:18 AM
>  >>> To: Kent Williams
>  >>> Cc: Insight Developers List
>  >>> Subject: Re: [Insight-developers] Is there a definitive list of File
>  >>> type suffixes?
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>> Hi Kent,
>  >>>
>  >>> That's good point,
>  >>>
>  >>> We don't have a centralized list of file extensions.
>  >>> They are buried now in the code of each ImageIO.
>  >>>
>  >>> Let's try to reconstruct the list here:
>  >>>
>  >>> 1) .mhd  = MetaImage single file
>  >>> 2) .mha  = MetaImage (header + raw) 2 files
>  >>> 3) .vtk  = VTK format
>  >>> 4) .gipl = GIPL
>  >>> 5) .raw  = RAW format (I suggest we deprecate this one...)
>  >>> 6)  ???  = VOL
>  >>> 7)  ???  = Analyze
>  >>> 8) .png  = PNG format
>  >>> 9) .pgm  = PGM format (to be converted in an ImageIO class)
>  >>>
>  >>> 10)   other ?
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>> Please if someone can help to fill in the blanks,
>  >>> that will be great.
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>    Luis
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>> -------------------------------------------------------
>  >>> Kent Williams wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>>> I'm getting ready to add a new image file format for Octree
>  >>>
>  >>> encoded images.
>  >>>
>  >>>> We're still working out what the internal file format
>  >>>
>  >>> organization, but I had
>  >>>
>  >>>> a simple question:  So as to not confuse ImageIO, we need
>  >>>
>  >>> to choose a file
>  >>>
>  >>>> extension distinct from all the others supported.  Is there
>  >>>
>  >>> a list somewhere
>  >>>
>  >>>> of all the filetype extensions?
>  >>>>
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