Reading a 3d Nifti image into an ImageJ ImagePlus

ImageJNiiReadExample.java

import java.io.IOException;

import loci.formats.FormatException;
import loci.formats.in.NiftiReader;
import loci.plugins.util.ImageProcessorReader;
import ij.IJ;
import ij.ImageJ;
import ij.ImagePlus;
import ij.ImageStack;

public class TestNiiReader
{
	/**
	 * Needs theses two dependencies in maven: 
	 * groupId: 		net.imagej
	 * artifactId:		ij
	 * 
  	 * groupId: 		ome
  	 * artifactId: 		bio-formats_plugins
	 */
	public static void main( String[] args ) throws FormatException, IOException
	{
		String f = "path-to-my-nifti-file.nii";
		
		/**
		 * The two lines below yields:
		 * "Unsupported format or not found" 
		 * at the time of this writing
		 */
//		ImagePlus aa = IJ.openImage( f );
//		System.out.println( aa );
		
		NiftiReader reader = new NiftiReader();
		reader.setId( f );
		
		int width  = reader.getSizeX();
		int height = reader.getSizeY();
		int depth  = reader.getSizeZ();
		
		ImageProcessorReader ipr = new ImageProcessorReader( reader );
		ImageStack stack = new ImageStack( width, height );
		for( int z = 0; z < depth; z++ )
			stack.addSlice( ipr.openProcessors( z )[0] );
		
		reader.close();
		ipr.close();
		
		ImagePlus ip = new ImagePlus( "foo", stack );
	}
}