# can any body help me how to open .mhd format images in matlab with .raw header
**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/can-any-body-help-me-how-to-open-mhd-format-images-in-matlab-with-raw-header/6092
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 10, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/can-any-body-help-me-how-to-open-mhd-format-images-in-matlab-with-raw-header/6092 "2019-03-10T18:33:43Z")
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### Author:  [@hira](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/hira)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/can-any-body-help-me-how-to-open-mhd-format-images-in-matlab-with-raw-header/6092/1 "2019-03-10T18:33:43Z")
Operating system:
Slicer version:
Expected behavior:
Actual behavior:
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### Author:  [@jamesobutler](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jamesobutler)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/can-any-body-help-me-how-to-open-mhd-format-images-in-matlab-with-raw-header/6092/2 "2019-03-10T18:47:06Z")
There is a Matlab toolbox called [Read Medical 3D Data](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/29344-read-medical-data-3d) that can help reading mha/mhd+raw files.
There is also a [reader](https://github.com/PlusToolkit/PlusMatlabUtils/blob/master/MatlabMetafileIO/mha_read_volume.m) within the PlusMatlabUtils repo within the PlusToolkit github organization.
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### Author:  [@cpinter](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/cpinter)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/can-any-body-help-me-how-to-open-mhd-format-images-in-matlab-with-raw-header/6092/3 "2019-03-10T19:30:51Z")
The fact that you wrote to this forum suggests that you want to do at least some of your workflow in Slicer. Can I ask what is that?
Also you can use the Matlab Bridge extension to do some of your processing in Matlab from Slicer:
[https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly/Extensions/MatlabBridge](https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly/Extensions/MatlabBridge)