mincconcat - concatenate minc files along a specific dimension

       Peter Neelin

-concat_dimensionname
              Specifies the name of concatenation dimension. If the dimension exists in the  input  files,  then
              coordinates are taken from those files. If not, then a new dimension is created and the coordinate
              for  each input file is taken from command-line options. The default is to use the slowest varying
              dimension of the first file.

       -startstart
              Specifies the starting coordinate for the new dimension (default = 0.0).

       -stepstep
              Specifies the separation between voxels for the new dimension (default = 1.0).

       -widthwidth
              Specifies the (constant) width of each sample along the new dimension (default = none).

       -coordlistc1,c2,...
              Specifies a comma-separated list of coordinates along the new dimension.

       -widthlistw1,w2,...
              Specifies a comma-separated list of widths along the new dimension.

       -filestartss1,s2,...
              Specifies a comma-separated list of offsets to the coordinate origins for each of the files listed
              on the command line. This option is useful for concatenating files along  an  existing  dimension,
              for example for concatenating multiple functional runs along a time dimension.

       -check_dimensions
              Check that all input files have matching sampling in world dimensions (default).

       -nocheck_dimensions
              Ignore any differences between input files in world dimensions sampling.

       -ascending
              Sort coordinates in ascending order (default).

       -descending
              Sort coordinates in descending order.

       -interleaved
              Sort slabs by their dimension coordinate, interleaving if necessary (default).

       -sequential
              Don't  sort  slabs,  just  concatenate  them  together.  WARNING - this will destroy the dimension
              information along the concatenating dimension, replacing the start and step with zero and one.

       Copyright © 1995 by Peter Neelin

                                          $Date: 2005-07-15 17:38:08 $                             MINCCONCAT(1)

Mincconcat  will  concatenate  a  number  of  minc  files  together,  producing a single output file. The
       concatenation is done along a specified dimension, with the slices being  sorted  into  ascending  order.
       The  concatenation dimension can either be a dimension in the file, in which case coordinates for sorting
       are taken directly from the input files, or it can be a new dimension and the coordinates  are  specified
       with a command-line option.

       To concatenate two volumes with dimensions  zspace,  yspace,  xspace,  having  interleaved  slices  along
       zspace, we can simply use

          mincconcat input1.mnc input2.mnc output.mnc

       If  we  have  a  bunch  of compressed (yspace,  xspace) images that we wish to concatenate into an evenly
       spaced volume, then we can type

          mincconcat input1.mnc.gz input2.mnc.gz input3.mnc.gz \
             input4.mnc.gz output.mnc \
             -concat_dimension zspace -start -23 -step 2

-2     Create a MINC 2.0 format output file.

       -clobber
              Overwrite an existing file.

       -noclobber
              Don't overwrite an existing file (default).

       -verbose
              Print out progress information for each chunk of data copied (default).

       -quiet Do not print out progress information.

       -max_chunk_size_in_kbsize
              Specify the maximum size of the copy buffer (in kbytes). Default is 4096 kbytes.

       -filelistfilename
              Specify a file containing a list of input file names. If "-" is given, then file  names  are  read
              from  stdin.  If  this  option is given, then there should be no input file names specified on the
              command line. Empty lines in the input file are ignored.

-help  Print summary of command-line options and exit.

       -version
              Print the program's version number and exit.

       mincconcat - concatenate minc files along a specific dimension

       Note  that  options  can  be  specified in abbreviated form (as long as they are unique) and can be given
       anywhere on the command line.

-filetype
              Don't do any type conversion (default).

       -byte  Write out 8-bit integer voxels.

       -short Write out 16-bit integer voxels.

       -int   Write out 32-bit integer voxels.

       -long  Superseded by -int.

       -float Write out single-precision floating point values.

       -double
              Write out double-precision floating point values.

       -signed
              Write out values as signed integers (default for short  and  long).  Ignored  for  floating  point
              types.

       -unsigned
              Write out values as unsigned integers (default for byte). Ignored for floating point types.

       -valid_rangeminmax
              Specifies  the  valid range of output voxel values in their integer representation. Default is the
              full range for the type and sign.  This option is ignored for floating point values.

mincconcat [<options>] <infile1>.mnc [<infile2>.mnc ...] <outfile>.mnc