Sorry, I don't know anyone who can help with that. As you note, people do it, so there must be people around who can extract the relevant information out of the header. The information you need are the direction cosines and RAS of the corner of the voxel. You can feed this into mri_volsynth.
To register to FS, you'll need to have a whole-brain volume collected during the same session. If you collected the anatomical analyzed in FS at the same time, then you don't need another. If you did not, you can literally use any whole brain acquisition, eg, a single TR of an EPI (less than 10 sec to acquire). You can then register the EPI to the anatomical with bbregister. This gives you a "register.dat". You can then concatenate that with the EPI-MRS registration (I can show you how). After that, you can run mri_compute_volume_fractions passing it the synthesized volume and the register.dat (or identity matrix if same session). Another alternative is to collect an actual MRI volume that spans your MRS volume. You can then substitute that for the synthetic volume. Note that the actual pixel content of this volume is irrelevant -- it's just used to get geometry information out of it. This will be the easiest if you can do it. doug _andre...@sapo.pt wrote: > Hi Doug, > > Do you know who can help me with this? That's exactly what I think > that I need to do... The thing is that, unfortunately, I can't find > anyone who can describe how the creation of an MRI "volume" from the > MRS voxel is done, although this approach is present in many many papers. > > About the second part, how do I register the synthetized MRI "volume" > to the FS anatomical? And how can I get the volumes of only that > "volume"? > > (Hopefully I'll find a way to do the first part...) > > Thanks, > Andreia > > > > > Citando Douglas N Greve <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>: > >> Hi Andreia, I've done this before using information in the spectroscopy >> header, then synthesizing an MRI "volume" with one voxel that covers the >> size of your spectroscopy voxel, then registering that to the FS >> anatomical, then computing the partial volume fractions from the >> anatomical. The hard part is the first step, which I can't really advise >> you on. >> >> doug >> >> _andre...@sapo.pt wrote: >>> Dear list, >>> >>> I am performing single-voxel and multivoxel spectroscopy analysis and >>> I need to do partial volume correction. I found a thread on the list >>> of someone asking if it possible to achieve this using Freesurfer (see >>> below), but there is no answer saying how it is done. My question is >>> how can I define the voxel (for single-voxel) and the chosen voxels >>> (for multivoxel) in the anatomical data set to use the segmentation of >>> only that defined voxel? I'm using a Siemens TrioTim 3T. All >>> acquisitions are in the same session. The anatomical dataset is an >>> average of 2 MPRAGEs which I've already processed using FS, and the >>> spectra files are .rda. The header of the MRS data has info on >>> vectors, but I don't know how to use them. >>> >>> >>> >>> "Re: [Freesurfer] need info for beginner >>> >>> Bruce Fischl >>> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:17:01 -0700 >>> >>> Hi Pom, >>> >>> yes, people here are using it for spectroscopy and for partial volume >>> correction (also for voxel placement). >>> >>> cheers, >>> Bruce >>> >>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am about to install FREE SURFER for my Spectroscopy work. >>> I want to use the software to perform GM/WM segmentation on my >>> single voxel data sets. >>> >>> I am wondering if any one on this mailing list is currently >>> doing this task. I would like to get comments. >>> >>> My study is on a GE 3T scanner. >>> >>> thank you, >>> >>> Pom" >>> >>> >>> >>> Any advice, please? >>> >>> Thank you! >>> >>> Andreia >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Andreia Pereira, MSc student >>> Visual Neuroscience Laboratory >>> IBILI-Faculdade de Medicina >>> Azinhaga de Santa Comba >>> 3000-354 Coimbra Portugal >>> Phone +(351) 239480220 >>> Fax +(351) 239480280 >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Freesurfer mailing list >>> Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu >>> https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer >> >> -- >> Douglas N. Greve, Ph.D. >> MGH-NMR Center >> gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu >> Phone Number: 617-724-2358 >> Fax: 617-726-7422 >> >> Bugs: surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/BugReporting >> FileDrop: www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/facility/filedrop/index.html >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freesurfer mailing list >> Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu >> https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer >> >> >> The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to >> whom it is >> addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and >> the e-mail >> contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance >> HelpLine at >> http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to >> you in error >> but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender >> and properly >> dispose of the e-mail. >> >> > > > -- Douglas N. 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