Image Management

nordicICE provides several methods for loading and saving images.

Subtopics in this section

Loading and Sorting Images
Load and Image from your Hard Disk or Network
BOLD/DTI Wizard
DICOM database
DICOM Reader
The NIFTI file manager
Saving Images

General introduction

Images can be loaded into nordicICE directly from the file menu, by drag and drop from Windows explorer or WinZip. Images can be sorted prior to loading using the Dicom reader or the Dicom Server.

Image Load

Individual images, imaging volumes or image series comprising several individual acquisitions of a given volume differentiated according to a fourth parameter such as echo time or time point may be loaded into an image window. A given series is normally stored in a single windows directory (but this is not a requirement). In effect any series or selection of images may be loaded into a single image window in nordicICE .

Abort Image Load

A current image loading operation may be aborted by pressing the ESC key. The images already loaded will be kept, but no more images will be loaded once the ESC key is pressed.

Loading images using the standard Windows File Open dialog

  • Main Menu: File ->Open File Ctrl+F

Access the standard windows file open dialog box to open a specified directory from which images may be loaded into the nordicICE workspace. The Explorer window always opens the directory from which images were last loaded.

nordicICE supports Drag and Drop of recognizable image files.

·        Use Windows Explorer to drag & drop image files directly into the nordicICE workspace

·        Loading compressed (Zipped) files Images may be loaded by drag & drop directly from WinZip without unzipping the files. This works in the same way as with Windows Explorer

Images may be sorted in Explorer by clicking on the name bar. Images are loaded in the order defined by the Microsoft standard. Individual images may be selected by clicking on a filename. A selection of several images can be made by holding the Ctrl key while clicking on the respective filenames. Clicking on a file while holding the Shift key selects all displayed files down to the specified file. Clicking on a file, then clicking on a second file while depressing the Shift key selects all the files between and including the specified files. Ctrl+A selects all of the images in a directory.

When loading a selected series from Windows Explorer by drag and drop, care must be taken to set the cursor over the first file to be loaded before dragging. nordicICE loads from the image where the cursor is set.