External Email - Use Caution        

Dear Manoj,


in case you want to rely on tools provided with FreeSurfer only, N3 can produce 
good results even for 7T data. However, in my experience, you need to supply a 
brainmask to N3 to achieve very similar results compared to SPM. Otherwise, 
especially around the temporal lobes the inhomogeneity will not be corrected 
sufficiently.


Tweaking recon-all for this is possible, but is slightly more complicated than 
changing the parameters of mri_nu_correct only. Furthermore, the procedure may 
change in case you use higher resolution 7T data.


Apart from that SPM, N3 as well as N4 of ANTs (also using a brainmask) will all 
produce similar results. I mostly use SPM for pre-processing my 7T data as it 
is the easiest to use in my processing pipeline.


Best,

Falk

________________________________
Von: freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu 
<freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> im Auftrag von Manoj Saranathan 
<manoj...@radiology.arizona.edu>
Gesendet: Montag, 6. Januar 2020 23:51:23
An: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Betreff: [Freesurfer] Freesurfer 7T MPRAGE


        External Email - Use Caution

Hi,


I am trying to process 7T MPRAGE data (not MP2RAGE) using recon-all. In 
previous threads, a few people have suggested using SPM to correct for bias 
first and then running recon-all. Alternatively I saw a thread which suggests 
modifying the mri_nu_correct command

https://www.mail-archive.com/freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/msg61913.html



Can I edit the recon-all to run this alternative command and simply run 
recon-all?  The threads are all really old and SPM is now SPM12 which 
integrates things. Is this modified bias correction inside FS as good as SPM ? 
I am mainly interested in thalamic segmentation.


Are there others with the same issue?


Thanks


manoj


Manoj Saranathan
Associate Professor, Dept. of Medical Imaging
University of Arizona
Ph: 520-626-6531



_______________________________________________
Freesurfer mailing list
Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer

Reply via email to