We recently ran into an issue with Freesurfer's mri_convert tool where it gives
an error of "unsupported slice timing pattern". We have some NIFTI MPRAGE
files that have a "slice_code" with a value of NIFTI_SLICE_ALT_INC2 (=5).
Issue arises in utils/mriio.c (line 9549 of rev:stable5), two slice
Just as an FYI, we also recently encountered the same problem, also
using mri_convert as our DICOM to NIFTI converter. Our work-around was
to just switch to dcm2nii.
Jolinda: I don't know why mri_convert is populating a "slice_code" entry
for a Siemens MPRAGE acquisition, since an MPRAGE is a