{
  "id": "nifti",
  "acronym": "NIfTI",
  "name": "Neuroimaging Informatics Technology Initiative format",
  "category": "imaging",
  "kind": "data-standard",
  "description": "The standard file format for volumetric neuroimaging data. A fixed binary header (NIfTI-1, or NIfTI-2 for large dimensions) carries voxel-to-world affines (qform/sform), units, intent codes and extensions, followed by the image array. Defined by the NIfTI Data Format Working Group; CIFTI-2 builds on NIfTI-2 for grayordinate data.",
  "formats": [
    "NIfTI-1",
    "NIfTI-2"
  ],
  "species": [
    "Human",
    "Multi-species"
  ],
  "maintainer": "NIfTI Data Format Working Group",
  "license": "Public domain",
  "homepage": "https://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/",
  "repository": "https://github.com/NIFTI-Imaging/nifti_clib",
  "publications": [],
  "usedBy": [
    {
      "name": "BIDS",
      "url": "https://bids-specification.readthedocs.io/en/stable/common-principles.html#nifti",
      "note": "Imaging data SHOULD be stored as NIfTI"
    },
    {
      "name": "AFNI",
      "url": "https://github.com/afni/afni/tree/master/src/nifti",
      "note": "Bundles the NIfTI C library; reads and writes NIfTI natively"
    },
    {
      "name": "SPM",
      "url": "https://github.com/spm/spm/tree/main/@nifti",
      "note": "@nifti class for NIfTI input and output"
    }
  ],
  "modules": [
    {
      "name": "nifti1.h",
      "url": "https://github.com/NIFTI-Imaging/nifti_clib/blob/master/niftilib/nifti1.h",
      "note": "Normative NIfTI-1 header definition"
    },
    {
      "name": "nifti2.h",
      "url": "https://github.com/NIFTI-Imaging/nifti_clib/blob/master/nifti2/nifti2.h",
      "note": "NIfTI-2 header definition (64-bit dimensions)"
    }
  ],
  "tools": [
    {
      "name": "NiBabel",
      "url": "https://nipy.org/nibabel/",
      "note": "Python read and write"
    },
    {
      "name": "dcm2niix",
      "url": "https://github.com/rordenlab/dcm2niix",
      "note": "DICOM to NIfTI conversion"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "MRI",
    "PET",
    "file format",
    "volumetric images"
  ],
  "url": "https://neuroschema.org/o/nifti/",
  "evaluation": null,
  "history": [],
  "changes": [],
  "provenance": null
}