dicom3_to_minc installation:

This package is not part of the standard BIC distribution (in that it is not
available from the http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/software/distribution
homepage).  This toolset consists of a Perl library and two Perl scripts. It
was developed by Jonathan Harlap, also at the BIC.

As with the other BIC packages, you can use wget from the
commandline to download the required files:

#> mkdir /usr/downloads/mni/jharlap
#> cd /usr/downloads/mni/jharlap
#> wget http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/~jharlap/dicom/software/pgk-vno.gz

Where pkg-vno.gz is one of the following:

DICOM-1.004.tar.gz
dicom3_to_minc.gz
get_dicom_info.gz


Install the dicom-perl library:


#> tar xzf DICOM-1.004.tar.gz
#> cd DICOM-1.004
#> perl Makefile.PL
#> make
#> make test
#> make install

Put the dicom3_to_minc Perl script in /usr/local/bin and make it
executable by all: 

#> cd /usr/local/bin
#> cp /usr/download/mni/jharlap/dicom3_to_minc.gz .
#> gunzip dicom3_to_minc.gz
#> chmod a+x dicom3_to_minc

dicom3_to_minc uses a special directory as its scratch space.
Technically speaking, we could modify the perl script, but it doesn't hurt to
have a protected temporary directory for this application:

#> mkdir /usr/tmp  

Then put the get_dicom_info into /usr/local/bin and make
it executable by all:

#> cp /usr/download/mni/jharlap/get_dicom_info.gz .
#> gunzip get_dicom_info.gz
#> chmod a+x get_dicom_info