can you try running recon-all directly on the dicoms? Also, it's probably 
pretty 
noisy at .5mm in-plane - how does it look? Is it whole brain?

On Wed, 17 Nov 
2010, liang wang wrote:

> Hi Bruce,
>
> I run the command on a NIFTI image converted by dicom files. The image can
> be skull stripped using bet in FSL, but some skulls were not removed
> clearly. Here is the information by mri_info. It seems to me normal, but
> several scan parameters loss. For the nifti image, I use to3d (AFNI code) to
> convert DICOM to nifti format and use 3drefit to  fix up correctly the
> orientation.
>
> #-----------------------------------
>          type: nii
>    dimensions: 256 x 256 x 160
>   voxel sizes: 0.5000, 0.5000, 1.0000
>          type: SHORT (4)
>           fov: 128.000
>           dof: 0
>        xstart: -64.0, xend: -64.0
>        ystart: -64.0, yend: -64.0
>        zstart: -80.0, zend: -80.0
>            TR: 0.00 msec, TE: 0.00 msec, TI: 0.00 msec, flip angle: 0.00
> degrees
>       nframes: 1
>       PhEncDir: UNKNOWN
> ras xform present
>    xform info: x_r =   1.0000, y_r =  -0.0000, z_r =  -0.0000, c_r =
> -2.6988
>              : x_a =  -0.0000, y_a =  -1.0000, z_a =  -0.0000, c_a =
> -1.3494
>              : x_s =   0.0000, y_s =   0.0000, z_s =  -1.0000, c_s =
> 6.9217
> Orientation   : RPI
> Primary Slice Direction: axial
>
> voxel to ras transform:
>                0.5000  -0.0000  -0.0000   -66.6988
>               -0.0000  -0.5000  -0.0000    62.6506
>                0.0000   0.0000  -1.0000    86.9217
>                0.0000   0.0000   0.0000     1.0000
>
> voxel-to-ras determinant 0.25
>
> ras to voxel transform:
>                2.0000  -0.0000  -0.0000   133.3976
>                0.0000  -2.0000   0.0000   125.3012
>                0.0000   0.0000  -1.0000    86.9217
>                0.0000   0.0000   0.0000     1.0000
>
>
> 2010/11/17 Bruce Fischl <fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
>
>> wow, that's a completely wacky talairach xform. Did you run this straight
>> on the dicom images? The talairach clearly failed for some reason. Try
>> running mri_info on the dicoms to see if there is something strange in them
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, liang wang wrote:
>>
>>  Hi FSusers,
>>>
>>> The terminal displays errors when I run "recon-all -autorecon1 -subjid
>>> ..."
>>> to get a skull-stripped brain image. The processing exits with the
>>> following
>>> errors regarding talairach transformation. Here is the talairach.xfm:
>>>
>>> MNI Transform File
>>> % tkregister2
>>>
>>> Transform_Type = Linear;
>>> Linear_Transform =
>>>  39.07553864   15.93667889  -36.86604309 -1474.05761719
>>> 1861.34423828  844.27008057 -1897.87268066 -75416.71093750
>>> -606.90667725 -274.30368042  622.14581299 24711.26757812 ;
>>>
>>>
>>> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Liang
>>>
>>> #--------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> #...@# Talairach Failure Detection Wed Nov 17 10:15:36 EST 2010
>>> /mnt/cd/kastner/liang/resting_state/ph_062210/fs_skull/ph/mri
>>>
>>> talairach_afd -T 0.005 -xfm transforms/talairach.xfm
>>>
>>> ERROR: talairach_afd: Talairach Transform: transforms/talairach.xfm
>>> ***FAILED*** (p=0.0000, pval=0.0000 < threshold=0.0050)
>>> Linux node37.cluster 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 10:41:14 EST 2009
>>> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> recon-all -s ph exited with ERRORS at Wed Nov 17 10:15:36 EST 2010
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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