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fslr (version 1.3)

rescale_img: Image Rescaler

Description

Rescales an image to be in certain value range. This was created as sometimes DICOM scale and slope parameters may be inconsistent across sites and the data need to be value restricted

Usage

rescale_img(filename, pngname = NULL, write.nii = TRUE, min.val = -1024,
  max.val = 3071, ROIformat = FALSE, writer = "dcm2nii", ...)

Arguments

filename
filename of image to be read into R or nifti object
pngname
filename of png of histogram of values of image to be made. For no png - set to NULL (default)
write.nii
logical - should the image be written. filename must be character if this is TRUE (default)
min.val
minimum value of image (default -1024 (for CT)). If no thresholding set to -Inf
max.val
maximum value of image (default 3071 (for CT)). If no thresholding set to Inf
ROIformat
if TRUE, any values $< 0$ will be set to 0
writer
character value to add to description slot of NIfTI header
...
extra methods to be passed to writeNIfTI

Value

  • Object of class nifti