Hi Panos sorry, I think this is pretty far outside our expertise, and it would be hard in any case to try to figure out what happened to give you these strange looking results. I certainly don't have any insight
sorry, Bruce On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Fotiadis, Panagiotis wrote: > Hi FS Community, > > I was wondering whether anyone had a chance to look into this. Thanks again > for your time! > > Best, > Panos > ________________________________________ > From: freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > [freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] on behalf of Fotiadis, Panagiotis > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 2:00 PM > To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > Subject: [Freesurfer] SWI acquisition question > > Hi FreeSurfer community, > > I am analyzing some SWI scans of some old subjects. For most of my subjects > when a SWI was acquired, the resulting files that I would get would be a > Magnitude image, a Phase image, a mIP image, and the SWI image. However, I > have a couple of subjects for whom I get only the mIP and the SWI images, and > the SWI image looks more blurry than it's supposed to be. I was wondering: > > 1) Why do I get only the mIP and the SWI images for those subjects and not > the magnitude and phase images as well, > 2) Is it normal for the mIP to look like that? Usually it looks different, and > 3) Why is the final SWI image more blurry than usual? By looking at the > image, I believe that maybe the head coil was not properly connected to the > scanner at the time of the acquisition but I don't know whether that would be > a sufficient explanation. > > I have attached two attachments: One of the resulting mIP and one of the > equivalent blurry SWI of the same subject. > > Thank you in advance for your help and time! > > Best, > Panos > _______________________________________________ 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.