Pure Javascript NRRD parser for browser and Node

Install

npm install @jonathanlurie/nrrdjs

Usage

EXAMPLE
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Use nrrdjs.parse(...) or await nrrdjs.parseAsync(...) for async/webworker.

The dist/ (umd) and the es/ production build contain both parse() and parseAsync() while the lib/ (cjs) contains only the parse() since it shoul be web worker free to work on Node.

ES6 import can be done like that:

import { parse, parseAsync, Toolbox } from 'nrrdjs'
// ...
parse(...)

or could also be done as such:

import * as nrrdjs from 'nrrdjs'
// ...
nrrdjs.parse(...)

The latter is convenient when in a dual context such as with Nextjs, where import are happening on both the server and the client. Then, importing all makes parseAsync available on client side, while explicitely importing in would crash on server side.

The encoding supported are: raw, ascii and gzip.

In addition to the parser, a toolbox is available under nrrdjs.Toolbox. There, some handy tools are provided:

• getting the number of components per voxel
• getting the number of time samples
• getting slices in the native orthogonal axis
• getting the voxel-two-world and world-to-voxel matrix
• getting values in world and voxel coordinates

TODO:

• Toolbox: better handle time index
• Toolbox: extract a time volume at a given t

Unsupported:

• block type (quite unstable from a machine to another)
• data file/datafile (when the header and the data are contained in two separate files)
• line skip/lineskip (because applies only to detached headers)
• byte skip/byteskip (because applies only to detached headers)
• hexadecimal encoding (when encoding: hex in the header)
• bzip2 compression