How to open .ima files with matlab?

Hello!

I need to open a 3D image which is in .ima format. Until now I opened all the images with imread() function because they were on .jpg or .bmp.

Which function can I use to open and read it to a 3d matrix?

Thanks!!

[heba sal]

use function dicomread

[Walter Roberson]

dicomread has been reported to fail on ima files .

File Exchange dicomrename is intended to preprocess these files. More extensive preprocess is available from the contribution fir Siemens ima sort and nifti converter