Documentation/Nightly/SlicerApplication/SupportedDataFormat

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File formats supported by Slicer Nightly

Format	File Name Extensions	Read	Write	Module
Scenes				Data
MRML (Medical Reality Markup Language File)	.mrml	yes	yes	MRML file is a xml-formatted text file with scene metadata and pointers to externally stored data files. Data Model
MRB (Medical Reality Bundle)	.mrb, .zip	yes	yes (.mrb extension only)	MRB is a binary format encapsulating all scene data (bulk data and metadata). Internally it uses zip format. Any .zip file that contains a self-contained data tree including a .mrml file can be opened.
Raster Images this includes 2D and 3D images, and more complicated types such as DWI or DTI				Volumes
DICOM	.dcm ...	yes	no	DICOM, DICOMToNRRDConverter, CreateDICOMSeries, Reporting extension
NRRD	.nrrd, .nhdr	yes	yes
MetaImage	.mhd, .mha	yes	yes
VTK	.vtk	yes	yes
Analyze	.hdr, .img, .img.gz	yes	yes
NifTI	.nia, .nii, .nii.gz	yes	yes
BMP	.bmp	yes	yes
BioRad	.pic	yes	yes
Brains2	.mask	yes	yes
GIPL	.gipl .gipl.gz	yes	yes
JPEG	.jpg, .jpeg	yes	yes
LSM	.lsm	yes	yes
PNG	.png	yes	yes
Stimulate	.spr	yes	yes
TIFF	.tif, .tiff	yes	yes
MGH-NMR	.mgz	yes	yes
Models				Models
VTK Polygonal Data	.vtk	yes	yes
VTK XML Polygonal Data	.vtp	yes	yes
STL	.stl	yes	yes
OBJ	.obj	yes	no
Others (to be tested)	.g, .byu, .orig, .inflated, .sphere, .white, .smoothwm, .pial	yes	no
Fiducials				Annotations
CSV	.fcsv	yes	yes
Text	.txt	yes	yes
Transforms				Transforms
Transform	.tfm, .mat	yes	yes
Text	.txt	yes	yes
Transfer Functions				Volume Rendering
Volume Rendering properties	.vp	yes	yes
Text	.txt	yes	yes
Lookup tables				Colors
Text	.txt, .ctbl	yes	yes
Double Arrays
CSV	.csv	yes	yes

References

• ITK File Formats