# mrinfo¶

## Usage¶

mrinfo [ options ]  image [ image ... ]

• image: the input image(s).

## Description¶

By default, all information contained in each image header will be printed to the console in a reader-friendly format.

Alternatively, command-line options may be used to extract specific details from the header(s); these are printed to the console in a format more appropriate for scripting purposes or piping to file. If multiple options and/or images are provided, the requested header fields will be printed in the order in which they appear in the help page, with all requested details from each input image in sequence printed before the next image is processed.

The command can also write the diffusion gradient table from a single input image to file; either in the MRtrix or FSL format (bvecs/bvals file pair; includes appropriate diffusion gradient vector reorientation)

The -dwgrad, -export_* and -shell_* options provide (information about) the diffusion weighting gradient table after it has been processed by the MRtrix3 back-end (vectors normalised, b-values scaled by the square of the vector norm, depending on the -bvalue_scaling option). To see the raw gradient table information as stored in the image header, i.e. without MRtrix3 back-end processing, use “-property dw_scheme”.

The -bvalue_scaling option controls an aspect of the import of diffusion gradient tables. When the input diffusion-weighting direction vectors have norms that differ substantially from unity, the b-values will be scaled by the square of their corresponding vector norm (this is how multi-shell acquisitions are frequently achieved on scanner platforms). However in some rare instances, the b-values may be correct, despite the vectors not being of unit norm (or conversely, the b-values may need to be rescaled even though the vectors are close to unit norm). This option allows the user to control this operation and override MRrtix3’s automatic detection.

## Options¶

• -all print all properties, rather than the first and last 2 of each.
• -name print the file system path of the image
• -format image file format
• -ndim number of image dimensions
• -size image size along each axis
• -spacing voxel spacing along each image dimension
• -datatype data type used for image data storage
• -strides data strides i.e. order and direction of axes data layout
• -offset image intensity offset
• -multiplier image intensity multiplier
• -transform the transformation from image coordinates [mm] to scanner / real world coordinates [mm]

### Options for exporting image header fields¶

• -property key (multiple uses permitted) any text properties embedded in the image header under the specified key (use ‘all’ to list all keys found)
• -json_keyval file export header key/value entries to a JSON file
• -json_all file export all header contents to a JSON file

### DW gradient table import options¶

• -grad file Provide the diffusion-weighted gradient scheme used in the acquisition in a text file. This should be supplied as a 4xN text file with each line is in the format [ X Y Z b ], where [ X Y Z ] describe the direction of the applied gradient, and b gives the b-value in units of s/mm^2. If a diffusion gradient scheme is present in the input image header, the data provided with this option will be instead used.
• -fslgrad bvecs bvals Provide the diffusion-weighted gradient scheme used in the acquisition in FSL bvecs/bvals format files. If a diffusion gradient scheme is present in the input image header, the data provided with this option will be instead used.
• -bvalue_scaling mode enable or disable scaling of diffusion b-values by the square of the corresponding DW gradient norm (see Desciption). Valid choices are yes/no, true/false, 0/1 (default: automatic).

### DW gradient table export options¶

• -export_grad_mrtrix path export the diffusion-weighted gradient table to file in MRtrix format
• -export_grad_fsl bvecs_path bvals_path export the diffusion-weighted gradient table to files in FSL (bvecs / bvals) format
• -shell_bvalues list the average b-value of each shell
• -shell_sizes list the number of volumes in each shell
• -shell_indices list the image volumes attributed to each b-value shell

### Options for exporting phase-encode tables¶

• -export_pe_table file export phase-encoding table to file
• -export_pe_eddy config indices export phase-encoding information to an EDDY-style config / index file pair
• -petable print the phase encoding table

### Standard options¶

• -info display information messages.
• -quiet do not display information messages or progress status; alternatively, this can be achieved by setting the MRTRIX_QUIET environment variable to a non-empty string.
• -debug display debugging messages.
• -force force overwrite of output files (caution: using the same file as input and output might cause unexpected behaviour).
• -config key value (multiple uses permitted) temporarily set the value of an MRtrix config file entry.
• -help display this information page and exit.
• -version display version information and exit.

### References¶

Tournier, J.-D.; Smith, R. E.; Raffelt, D.; Tabbara, R.; Dhollander, T.; Pietsch, M.; Christiaens, D.; Jeurissen, B.; Yeh, C.-H. & Connelly, A. MRtrix3: A fast, flexible and open software framework for medical image processing and visualisation. NeuroImage, 2019, 202, 116137

Author: J-Donald Tournier (d.tournier@brain.org.au) and Robert E. Smith (robert.smith@florey.edu.au)