BRIK/HEAD

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Note that (nearly?) all AFNI programs support the much more widely-used .nii file format; converting data to that format may be a good move. A caveat is that the .nii header supports much less information than .head files.
 
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Latest revision as of 14:13, 5 April 2013

File Format
Name BRIK/HEAD
Ontology
Extension(s) .brik,.head

[edit] General description

BRIK and HEAD files are medical imaging (generally, brain imaging) data files generated and used by the AFNI (Analysis of Functional NeuroImaging) analysis package. The files are multi-dimensional raster data, or "voxel" data -- in essence, pixels with a value in three dimensions. The AFNI format also supports time-series data, or multiple values at each voxel over time, per participant, or with different meaning (for example, a beta value and a t-statistic).

The .BRIK portion of the file contains the actual voxel data, while the .HEAD file contains the metadata needed to interpret the data.

[edit] Software

The AFNI software suite is open-source, written in C, and available here.

[edit] Other considerations

Note that (nearly?) all AFNI programs support the much more widely-used .nii file format; converting data to that format may be a good move. A caveat is that the .nii header supports much less information than .head files.

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