it can be trouble if they are that low, as you lose dynamic range in the 8-bit representation. What are the ranges in orig.mgz? On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Nick Schmansky wrote:

Jerry,

At this point, I think Bruce will need to jump-in to answer (he is out-
of-town today).  I think he will ask about your scan parameters, ie, how
is your scanner setup?  It sounds as if something is not quite right in
the data coming-off the scanner.

Nick


On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:26 -0400, Jerry Yeou-Wei Chen wrote:
Thanks for the reply, Nick. I think you correctly identified the
problem.
nu.mgz is oriented correctly, but looks very dark... However, it looks
decent if I adjust the brightness/contrast....
I have other scans that were processed without error, and the
orig.mgz, and nu.mgz also appear quite dark (and the mri peaks are
very low, too: 29, 46, 52, ...) Also, for those successfully
processed, the brainmask.mgz looks decent as well.
Perhaps this scan that exited with error was too dark to be corrected
by the intensity normalization algorithm?

- Jerry

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Nick Schmansky
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
        Jerry,

        I'm not sure why it exited without giving a better message,
        but this is
        a clue why it exited:


        before smoothing, mri peak at 0
        after smoothing, mri peak at 0, scaling input intensities by
        inf




        the mri peak is at zero, which is wrong (it should be around
        116/117 or
        so).

        if you view nu.mgz (tkmedit -f nu.mgz), does it look ok?  is
        it oriented
        correctly?

        Nick





        On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 12:28 -0400, Jerry Yeou-Wei Chen wrote:
       > Hello,
       >
       > I am having trouble deciphering why I got the error attached
        below.
       > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
       >
       > Thanks,
       > - Jerry
       >
       >
       >
       >
       > Tue Apr 22 10:15:22 EDT 2008
       > talairach_avi done
       >
       >  cp transforms/talairach.auto.xfm transforms/talairach.xfm
       >
       > #--------------------------------------------
       > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Talairach Failure Detection Tue Apr 22 10:15:23 EDT 
2008
       > /scratch/freesurfer/subjects/17/s017/mri
       >
       >  talairach_afd -T 0.005 -xfm transforms/talairach.xfm
       >
       > talairach_afd: Talairach Transform: transforms/talairach.xfm
        OK
       > (p=0.7072, pval=0.4932 >= threshold=0.0050)
       >
       >  awk -
       >
        f /scratch/freesurfer/bin/extract_talairach_avi_QA.awk 
/scratch/freesurfer/subjects/17/s017/mri/transforms/talairach_avi.log
       >
       > TalAviQA: 0.96840
       > z-score: -2
       > #--------------------------------------------
       > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intensity Normalization Tue Apr 22 10:15:23 EDT 2008
       > /scratch/freesurfer/subjects/17/s017/mri
       >
       >  mri_normalize -g 1 nu.mgz T1.mgz
       >
       > using max gradient = 1.000
       > reading from nu.mgz...
       > normalizing image...
       > talairach transform
       >  0.976   0.083   0.030  -136.866;
       > -0.072   1.053   0.164  -153.262;
       > -0.020  -0.109   1.085  -122.101;
       >  0.000   0.000   0.000   1.000;
       > INFO: Modifying talairach volume c_(r,a,s) based on
        average_305
       > building Voronoi diagram...
       > performing soap bubble smoothing...
       > 3d normalization pass 1 of 2
       > building Voronoi diagram...
       > performing soap bubble smoothing...
       > 3d normalization pass 2 of 2
       > building Voronoi diagram...
       > performing soap bubble smoothing...
       > writing output to T1.mgz
       > 3D bias adjustment took 19 minutes and 44 seconds.
       > white matter peak found at 111
       > gm peak at 88 (88), valley at 80 (80)
       > csf peak at 57, setting threshold to 77
       > white matter peak found at 111
       > gm peak at 88 (88), valley at 80 (80)
       > csf peak at 55, setting threshold to 77
       > #--------------------------------------------
       > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skull Stripping Tue Apr 22 10:35:16 EDT 2008
       > /scratch/freesurfer/subjects/17/s017/mri
       >
       >  mri_em_register -skull
       >
        nu.mgz /scratch/freesurfer/average/RB_all_withskull_2008-03-26.gca
       > transforms/talairach_with_skull.lta
       >
       > aligning to atlas containing skull, setting
        unknown_nbr_spacing = 5
       > reading 1 input volumes...
       > logging results to talairach_with_skull.log
       > reading
       >
        '/scratch/freesurfer/average/RB_all_withskull_2008-03-26.gca'...
       > average std = 23.1   using min determinant for
        regularization = 53.4
       > 0 singular and 5702 ill-conditioned covariance matrices
        regularized
       > reading 'nu.mgz'...
       > freeing gibbs priors...done.
       > bounding unknown intensity as < 20.2 or > 943.7
       > total sample mean = 92.0 (1443 zeros)
       > ************************************************
       > spacing=8, using 3481 sample points, tol=1.00e-05...
       > ************************************************
       > register_mri: find_optimal_transform
       > find_optimal_transform: nsamples 3481, passno 0, spacing 8
       > GCAhistoScaleImageIntensities: could not find wm peak
       > resetting wm mean[0]: 117 --> 126
       > resetting gm mean[0]: 74 --> 74
       > input volume #1 is the most T1-like
       > using real data threshold=9.0
       > using (102, 110, 122) as brain centroid...
       > mean wm in atlas = 126, using box (80,83,98) --> (123,
        136,146) to
       > find MRI wm
       > before smoothing, mri peak at 0
       > after smoothing, mri peak at 0, scaling input intensities by
        inf
       > Linux kdavis8-efef.uhnres.utoronto.ca 2.6.23.1-21.fc7 #1 SMP
        Thu Nov 1
       > 21:09:24 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
       >
       > recon-all exited with ERRORS at Tue Apr 22 10:41:40 EDT 2008

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