I have to assume that Bruker MRI data is stored in some kind of proprietary format, which ITTVIS/RSI has not created any automatic parser/reader for. If you Google "Bruker MRI IDL", you certainly find many companies and independent researchers, who appear to have written in IDL parsers that can extract the image(s) data from a Bruker MRI. I myself could not quickly see how one might acquire the specification for this format. Without close reading it appeared that at least one website suggested that Bruker MRI's follow the specifications of Common Data Format (CDF). If that were true, Steven, then you could use IDL's 'CDF_...' interface library to start parsing through the entire contents of a Bruker MRI file and both access the data and uncover the file format pattern. The best approach, however, would be to acquire the file format specification direct from Bruker BioSpin. Good luck, James Jones

Hi Steven, We use IDL routinely to analyse MRI data acquired on a Bruker system. However, the first thing we do (outside of IDL) is to convert the image data into a more convenient format! (e.g., Analyze AVW) We use an in-house converter to do this, but I believe somewhere in Paravision there is also a way to export to Analyze. There are also other conversion routines out there. There are IDL routines to read/write Analyze format images from the University of Nottingham. As I'm sure you know, the Bruker format comprises a welter of text files and subdirectories - most of the key parameters are in the reco and acqp files however. good luck adam