<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>FormatNifti</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>6</revnumber><date>2013-03-07 21:23:04</date><authorinitials>localhost</authorinitials><revremark>converted to 1.6 markup</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>5</revnumber><date>2007-03-01 00:39:24</date><authorinitials>host86-136-197-103.range86-136.btcentralplus.com</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2007-03-01 00:39:02</date><authorinitials>host86-136-197-103.range86-136.btcentralplus.com</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2007-03-01 00:38:41</date><authorinitials>host86-136-197-103.range86-136.btcentralplus.com</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2006-09-01 09:57:29</date><authorinitials>cmbg-cache-2.server.ntli.net</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2006-07-06 12:53:08</date><authorinitials>devel03.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><section><title>NIfTI image data format</title><para>NIfTI is a variant of <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-01.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/FormatNifti/imaging/FormatAnalyze#">FormatAnalyze</ulink> that incorporates some of the features of <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-01.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/FormatNifti/imaging/FormatSpmAnalyze#">FormatSpmAnalyze</ulink>.  </para><para>It is designed to contain enough information to supercede previous variants of the abused old <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-01.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/FormatNifti/imaging/FormatAnalyze#">FormatAnalyze</ulink>.  In particular it contains fields that allow the storage of transformation matrices to encode results of realignment, coregistration and normalization.  </para><para>It is the default data format of the latest versions <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-01.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/FormatNifti/imaging/StatisticalParametricMapping#">StatisticalParametricMapping</ulink>. <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-01.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/FormatNifti/imaging/FmribSoftwareLibrary#">FmribSoftwareLibrary</ulink> and <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-01.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/FormatNifti/imaging/AfniInformation#">AFNI</ulink>.  </para><para>The current version (July 2006) is NIfTI-1.  There is a new version in development, NIfTI-2. </para><para>See <ulink url="http://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/nifti-1"/> for documentation. </para><para>There is also a NIfTI FAQ - <ulink url="http://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/nifti-1/documentation/faq"/> </para></section></article>