SimpleITK & MetaIO: changing the .raw extension

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Dear all,
When I save MHD images using https://simpleitk.org/doxygen/latest/html/classitk_1_1simple_1_1ImageFileWriter.html, is there a way to save with a different extension other than “.raw”/“.zraw”?

VTK does support that through vtkMetaImageWriter.SetRAWFileName (https://vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkMetaImageWriter.html#a0ac422a80fb366e32a88882c34e709f4) is there is a similar possibility with SimpleITK?

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Hello @ingmar.voigt,

Unfortunately, this is not possible in ITK/SimpleITK. The FileWriter is a generic class which is used for all file types, so there is only one output name. The mhd format is unique in that the “output file” is actually two files.

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.nhdr variant from NRRD file format has the same issue.