Hi Bruce,

Originally, data was in MINC format.
On Dec 16, 2014 1:54 AM, "Bruce Fischl" <fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Hi Gunjan
>
> what was the original data format that you had? Once you have converted it
> to nifti in your current stream you can no longer use the data, so you have
> to start further upstream
>
> cheers
> Bruce
>
>
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Gunjan Gautam wrote:
>
>
>> I don't have dicom for this subject but it can easily be converted to from
>> .nii to .dcm.
>> I try this out and get back to you if I stuck at some point.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gunjan
>>
>> On Dec 16, 2014 12:49 AM, "Bruce Fischl" <fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
>> wrote:
>>       do you have the dicom data for this subject? If so, it will be
>>       separated into different "series" each corresponding to one
>>       acquisition (e.g. a T1-weighted one such as mprage or FLASH).
>>       Typically that series will have more than 150 slices (since
>>       that's what it takes to cover the brain at close to 1mm voxel
>>       size). You need to give recon-all the dicom file that contains a
>>       single one of those slices. It doesn't matter which one - we
>>       will figure out the rest of them from any of them
>>
>>       On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Gunjan Gautam wrote:
>>
>>
>>             Hi Bruce,
>>
>>             I am sorry to say that I did not get you properly.
>>             Could you please say a bit more about "a *single*
>>             slice in the correct
>>             series ". I want to try this option.
>>
>>             On Dec 16, 2014 12:13 AM, "Bruce Fischl"
>>             <fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>                   Hi Gunjan
>>
>>                   freesurfer will handle the dicom slices just
>>             find. Just give
>>                   recon-all a *single* slice in the correct
>>             series with the -i
>>                   command and it should work. I don't know
>>             medcon, but it is not
>>                   propagating the direction cosine info into the
>>             nifti, which
>>                   means that the nifti files are effectively
>>             useless as you will
>>                   never be able to distinguish left from right
>>             again
>>
>>                   cheers
>>                   Bruce
>>
>>
>>                   On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Gunjan Gautam wrote:
>>
>>
>>                         Thanks Bruce,
>>
>>                         I used "medcon" command (Ubuntu) for the
>>             stacking of
>>                         2D slices in order to
>>                         convert it in a volume. These slices
>>             were obtained
>>                         from a volume itself and
>>                         after making some intensity changes, a
>>             volume is
>>                         formed (using medcon)
>>                         again. Then I fed this volume as input
>>             to FS in
>>                         order to extract brain.
>>
>>                         Can I overcome  this orientation issue ?
>>
>>                         Gunjan
>>
>>                         On Dec 15, 2014 11:49 PM, "Bruce Fischl"
>>                         <fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>                               Hi Gunjan
>>
>>                               the problem is that the nifti
>>             volume doesn't
>>                         contain the
>>                               direction cosine information that
>>             we need to
>>                         figure out what
>>                               directions are A/P, I/S and L/R.
>>             mri_convert
>>                         warns of this:
>>
>>                               mri_convert
>>
>>
>>             m000-stacks-m000-t1_icbm_normal_1mm_pn0_rf0-00001.nii.gz
>>                               test.mgz
>>                               mri_convert
>>
>>
>>             m000-stacks-m000-t1_icbm_normal_1mm_pn0_rf0-00001.nii.gz
>>                               test.mgz
>>                               $Id: mri_convert.c,v 1.213
>>             2014/07/29 19:22:31
>>                         fischl Exp $
>>                               reading from
>>
>>
>>             m000-stacks-m000-t1_icbm_normal_1mm_pn0_rf0-00001.nii.gz...
>>                               WARNING: neither NIfTI-1 qform or
>>             sform are
>>                         valid
>>                               WARNING: your volume will probably
>>             be
>>                         incorrectly oriented
>>                               TR=1.00, TE=0.00, TI=0.00, flip
>>             angle=0.00
>>                               WARNING: it does not appear that
>>             there was
>>                         sufficient
>>                               information
>>                               in the input to assign orientation
>>             to the
>>                         volume...
>>                               i_ras = (-1, 0, 0)
>>                               j_ras = (0, 1, 0)
>>                               k_ras = (0, 0, 1)
>>                               writing to test.mgz...
>>
>>                               and if you try to view the
>>             converted volume in
>>                         freeview it shows
>>                               up in the wrong orientation (e.g
>>             what we think
>>                         is "coronal" is
>>                               actually horizonatal).
>>
>>                               How did you create the nifti
>>             files? If you
>>                         give dicom directly
>>                               to recon-all you will likely not
>>             have this
>>                         problem
>>
>>                               cheers
>>                               Bruce
>>
>>
>>                               On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Gunjan Gautam
>>             wrote:
>>
>>                                     ​Dear all,
>>
>>                                     I am facing few errors in
>>             recon-all
>>                         command (eg
>>                                     mritotal failed) while
>>                                     dealing with a specific set
>>             of volumes.
>>                         How to
>>                                     overcome these issues in
>>                                     order to run recon-all
>>             successfully.
>>                                     Please find the
>>             recon-all.log and volume
>>                         attached
>>                                     with this mail.
>>
>>                                     Gunjan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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