.. index:: NIfTI
.. index:: .img, .hdr, .nii, .nii.gz

NIfTI
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Extensions: .img, .hdr, .nii, .nii.gz

Developer: `National Institutes of Health <https://www.nih.gov/>`_


**Support**


BSD-licensed: |no|

Export: |no|

Officially Supported Versions: 

Reader: NiftiReader (:bfreader:`Source Code <NiftiReader.java>`, :doc:`Supported Metadata Fields </metadata/NiftiReader>`)




We currently have:

* `NIfTI specification documents <https://www.nitrc.org/docman/view.php/26/204/TheNIfTI>`_
* several NIfTI datasets 
* `public sample images <https://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/images/NIfTI/>`__



**Ratings**


Pixels: |Very good|

Metadata: |Very good|

Openness: |Very good|

Presence: |Good|

Utility: |Fair|



