Dear Bruce

We are trying to obtain a good contrast in 7T for thickness measurements
using freesurfer by piloting different sequences, is there anyway we can
process the T2*s in the pipeline?


On 08/07/2010 17:07, "Bruce Fischl" <fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Hi Lena,
> 
> -notal-check will disable the error detection, not the tal itself, so
> won't help in cases where the xform is truly wrong. The image you sent
> looks PD/T2* weighted, which won't work for the talairaching we use (or for
> many of our analysis steps).Do you have a T1-weighted image?
> 
> cheers
> Bruce
> 
> 
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Lena
> Palaniyappan wrote:
> 
>> 
>> The original image is attached -
>> Even after notal-check, the recon exits with error
>> mri_watershed Error:
>> 
>> GLOBAL region of the brain empty !
>> \ (we have not included cerebellum fully in the slices: is this a problem?)
>> Thanks for your help
>> 
>> On 08/07/2010 16:05, "Bruce Fischl" <fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> well that certainly looks wrong. What does the original image look like?
>>> On
>>> Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Lena Palaniyappan wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I am trying to reconstruct some 7T images but they repeatedly fail
>>>> Talairach
>>>> step
>>>> The tkmedit displays normal coronal, sagittal positions for the target.
>>>> If I use tkregister2 the moveable appears odd ­ please see the attached
>>>> 
>>>> The error message is
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> #...@# Talairach Failure Detection Thu Jul  8 10:58:38 BST 2010
>>>> /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/7TMRIData/szanat05a/mri
>>>> \n talairach_afd -T 0.005 -xfm transforms/talairach.xfm \n
>>>> ERROR: talairach_afd: Talairach Transform: transforms/talairach.xfm
>>>> ***FAILED*** (p=0.0000, pval=0.0000 < threshold=0.0050)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The talairach.xfm shows
>>>> 
>>>> MNI Transform File
>>>> % tkregister2
>>>> 
>>>> Transform_Type = Linear;
>>>> Linear_Transform =
>>>>   2.49591112    0.47519815    2.82347846   13.68270206
>>>>  -3.58282375    2.34796309   -2.66250205   -5.44943428
>>>>  -2.31779170   -0.83566302    0.94148278    7.01633883 ;
>>>> 
>>>> What should I do next?
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Lena
>>>> _______________________________________________________
>>>> Lena Palaniyappan
>>>> Clinical Lecturer & Honorary StR | Division of Psychiatry ( University of
>>>> Nottingham)
>>>> South Block 'A' floor| Queens Medical Centre | Nottingham | NG7 2UH
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>> _______________________________________________________
>> Lena Palaniyappan
>> Clinical Lecturer & Honorary StR | Division of Psychiatry ( University of
>> Nottingham)
>> South Block 'A' floor| Queens Medical Centre | Nottingham | NG7 2UH
>> 
>> 
>> 

_______________________________________________________
Lena Palaniyappan 
Clinical Lecturer & Honorary StR | Division of Psychiatry ( University of
Nottingham) 
South Block 'A' floor| Queens Medical Centre | Nottingham | NG7 2UH



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