One more thing that might be useful: for my current dataset, everything was
processed in FreeSurfer 4.3.1.

Thank you,
Jeff

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Jeff Sadino <jsadino.que...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a question about the effects of FreeSurfer's resampling algorithms.
>  The way our pipeline goes is that we convert our DICOM images into .nii.gz
> format using FSL tools.  One of the commands we use is FSLCPGEOM.  I was
> never sure why, but our script would always break without it.  Looking into
> it in more detail now, I see that it is replacing the voxel size information
> in the Nifti header with the voxel size in the template that FSLCPGEOM is
> copying from.  This is causing all of our data to show isovolumetric 1x1x1
> information in the header, even if the voxels really are non-isovolumetric.
>  I have been having a difficult time combining FreeSurfer results across our
> different studies and I am wondering if this might be the reason why.  All
> of our studies have voxels acquired near 1x1x1 isovolumetric, usually no
> more than .3mm away in any direction.  What would the effect be of pushing
> data through the FreeSurfer reconstruction pipeline that is not really 1x1x1
> isovolumetric?
>
> Thank you,
> Jeff Sadino
>
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