Well, I tried to avoid FSL, and used only Freesurfer tool to do the same
thing. I found there was the same issue when an image with 32-bit float
point data type converts to 32-bit integer. No problem for the convertion
from 32-bit float point to 8-bit unsigned integer.

Wayne


On 05/10/10 10:44 AM, "Wayne Su" <w...@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:

> Hello Freesurfer Users,
> 
> I am feeling very bad when I am using mri_convert. There are two problems:
> 1. When I converted a file in mgz  format to nii.gz format, and did some
> volume calculation (mask and addition) by using fslmaths from FSL, then
> converted back to mgz.  If the image type is uchar, it works fine. If the
> image type is int, the intensities changed. The Œ0¹ value is changed to
> Œ­2.1e+09¹, others also in very large number (look like read the data from
> wrong place).  Here is the code I used:
> 
>         ${FREESURFER_HOME}/bin/mri_convert aparc+aseg.mgz aparc+aseg.nii.gz
> -odt int
>         ${FSLDIR}/bin/fslmaths aparc+aseg -mas right_vect_mask_inv -add
> right_vect_mask aparc+aseg
>         ${FREESURFER_HOME}/bin/mri_convert aparc+aseg.nii.gz aparc+aseg.mgz
> -odt int
> 
>         If no fslmaths calculation, convert back to mgz right way, no problem
> found. 
> 
> 2. when the ­conform is used, some head were rotated a little bit, but not for
> others. I am wondering how to avoid the rotation?
> 
> Regards,
> Wayne
> 
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