NiBabel Manual

• Installation
  • Installer and packages
    • pip and the Python package index
    • Debian/Ubuntu
  • Install a development version
    • Requirements
    • Get the development sources
    • Installation
    • Validating your install
• Getting Started
• Nibabel images
  • The image object
  • The image header
  • The image data array
    • Array proxies and proxy images
    • Array images
    • Getting the image data the easy way
    • Proxies and caching
    • Image slicing
  • Loading and saving
  • Details of files and images
• Images and memory
  • Using in_memory to check the state of the cache
  • Using uncache
  • Saving memory
    • Uncache the array
    • Use the array proxy instead of get_fdata()
    • Use the caching keyword to get_fdata()
  • Saving time and memory
• Working with NIfTI images
  • Preliminaries
  • Example NIfTI images
  • The NIfTI header
  • The NIfTI affines
    • The sform affine
    • The qform affine
    • The fall-back header affine
    • Choosing the image affine
    • Default sform and qform codes
  • Data scaling
• Image voxel orientation
• Copyright and Licenses
  • NiBabel
  • 3rd party code and data
    • NetCDF
    • Sphinx autosummary extension
    • OrderedSet
    • mni_icbm152_t1_tal_nlin_asym_09a
    • Philips PAR/REC data
• NiBabel Development Changelog
  • Nibabel releases
    • 5.0.0 (Monday 9 January 2023)
      • New features
      • Enhancements
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
      • API changes and deprecations
    • 4.0.2 (Wednesday 31 August 2022)
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
    • 4.0.1 (Saturday 18 June 2022)
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
    • 4.0.0 (Saturday 18 June 2022)
      • New features
      • Enhancements
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
      • API changes and deprecations
    • 3.2.2 (Monday 7 February 2022)
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
    • 3.2.1 (Saturday 28 November 2020)
      • Maintenance
    • 3.2.0 (Tuesday 20 October 2020)
      • New features
      • Enhancements
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
      • API changes and deprecations
    • 3.1.1 (Friday 26 June 2020)
      • Bug fixes
    • 3.1.0 (Monday 20 April 2020)
      • New features
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
      • API changes and deprecations
    • 2.5.2 (Wednesday 8 April 2020)
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
    • 3.0.2 (Monday 9 March 2020)
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
    • 3.0.1 (Monday 27 January 2020)
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
    • 3.0.0 (Wednesday 18 December 2019)
      • New features
      • Enhancements
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
      • API changes and deprecations
    • 2.5.1 (Monday 23 September 2019)
      • Enhancements
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
      • API changes and deprecations
    • 2.5.0 (Sunday 4 August 2019)
      • Enhancements
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
      • API changes and deprecations
    • 2.4.1 (Monday 27 May 2019)
      • Enhancements
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
      • API changes and deprecations
    • 2.4.0 (Monday 1 April 2019)
      • New features
      • Enhancements
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
    • 2.3.3 (Wednesday 16 January 2019)
      • Maintenance
    • 2.3.2 (Wednesday 2 January 2019)
      • Enhancements
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
      • API changes and deprecations
    • 2.3.1 (Tuesday 16 October 2018)
      • New features
      • Enhancements
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
    • 2.3 (Tuesday 12 June 2018)
      • New features
      • Enhancements
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
      • API changes and deprecations
    • 2.2.1 (Wednesday 22 November 2017)
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
    • 2.2 (Friday 13 October 2017)
      • New features
      • Enhancements
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
      • API changes and deprecations
    • 2.1 (Monday 22 August 2016)
      • New features
      • Enhancements
      • Bug fixes
      • Maintenance
      • API changes and deprecations
    • 2.0.2 (Monday 23 November 2015)
    • 2.0.1 (Saturday 27 June 2015)
    • 2.0.0 (Tuesday 9 December 2014)
    • 1.3.0 (Tuesday 11 September 2012)
    • 1.2.2 (Wednesday 27 June 2012)
    • 1.2.1 (Wednesday 13 June 2012)
    • 1.2.0 (Sunday 6 May 2012)
    • 1.1.0 (Thursday 28 April 2011)
    • 1.0.2 (Thursday 14 April 2011)
    • 1.0.1 (Wednesday 23 Feb 2011)
    • 1.0.0 (Thursday, 13, Oct 2010)
  • PyNifti releases
    • 0.20100706.1 (Tue, 6 Jul 2010)
    • 0.20100412.1 (Mon, 12 Apr 2010)
    • 0.20090303.1 (Tue, 3 Mar 2009)
    • 0.20090205.1 (Thu, 5 Feb 2009)
    • 0.20081017.1 (Fri, 17 Oct 2008)
    • 0.20080710.1 (Thu, 7 Jul 2008)
    • 0.20080630.1 (Tue, 30 Jun 2008)
    • 0.20080624.1 (Tue, 24 Jun 2008)
    • 0.20070930.1 (Sun, 30 Sep 2007)
    • 0.20070917.1 (Mon, 17 Sep 2007)
    • 0.20070905.1 (Wed, 5 Sep 2007)
    • 0.20070803.1 (Fri, 3 Aug 2007)
    • 0.20070425.1 (Wed, 25 Apr 2007)
    • 0.20070315.1 (Thu, 15 Mar 2007)
    • 0.20070301.2 (Thu, 1 Mar 2007)
    • 0.20070301.1 (Thu, 1 Mar 2007)
    • 0.20070220.1 (Tue, 20 Feb 2007)
    • 0.20070214.1 (Wed, 14 Feb 2007)
    • 0.20061114 (Tue, 14 Nov 2006)