I am using the coordinates obtained with the matlab function "read_label()".
I send you one of my labels.

Thanks a lot,
Yolanda

2011/5/3 Douglas N Greve <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>

> Which coordinates are you using? Can you send me the label?
> doug
>
> Yolanda Vives wrote:
>
>> Hi Doug,
>>
>> The problem is that when I put the coordinates in a MNI altas, it says
>> that they correspond to the caudate and not to the cingulate and I would
>> like to know if the procedure that I am following is correct.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yolanda
>>
>> 2011/5/3 Douglas N Greve <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:
>> gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>>
>>
>>
>>    Hi Yolanda, they should already be in mni305 coordinates, so the
>>    identity matrix is correct. Did you find a potential problem?
>>    doug
>>
>>    Yolanda Vives wrote:
>>
>>        Hi all,
>>         I am interested in obtaining the MNI or talairach coordinates
>>        of a label. The procedure that I have performed is the following:
>>         First of all I have performed a QDEC analysis. From the
>>        results, I have drawn a label of a significant area of the
>>        brain, that corresponds to the cingulate. Afterwards, I have
>>        used the matlab function read_label to obtain the RAS
>>        coordinates of this label. To transform these coordinates into
>>        mni coordinates, I have read that  if v = [R A S 1]' and X
>>        matrix is the matrix from talairach.xfm, then vMNI = X*v
>>         Taking this into account, I have used the X matrix from the
>>        talairach.xfm of "fsaverage" (where the results of qdec are
>>        mapped). This matrix is
>>         1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
>>        0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0
>>        0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0
>>        so vMNI is the same as v. When I introduce v (or vMNI)
>>        coordinates into a MNI atlas, I don't obtain the cingulate.
>>
>>        Could you please help me with this procedure?
>>         Thank you in advance,
>>        Yolanda
>>
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