Re: [Freesurfer] Help ! Error for generating *.mgz files

2011-02-23 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Tim, the one run is okay, but the failure of the Talairach is probably an indication that the orientation information is incorrect. Because analyze doesn't specify the orientation, the info you get is just a guess. Bring the orig.mgz up in tkmedit and see if the anatomical views are correct

[Freesurfer] Help ! Error for generating *.mgz files

2011-02-23 Thread xiaotian yin
Dear Bruce, Thank you so much for taking care of my stupid questions :) I searched online regarding the ANALYZE vs Dicom, and I understand your point now ... The problem is, for this scan, I am afraid the only data format that I can play with is ANALYZE ... (although there might be Dicom format

Re: [Freesurfer] Help ! Error for generating *.mgz files

2011-02-19 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Tim, the .hdr/.img format is called Analyze, and it doesn't come with orientation informaton. This means that it is easy for example to get a left/right swap that you will never know was in your data. Can you get it in any other format, like dicom, or whatever format it came off the scanner

[Freesurfer] Help ! Error for generating *.mgz files

2011-02-19 Thread xiaotian yin
Hi, Thank you for reading this email ! I am a newbie to Medical Imaging, and am learning to use FreeSurfer for surface construction. Already installed FreeSurfer in Ubuntu, and the installation has been verified to be 100% successful. I got a bunch of data (coming in pairs of *.hdr and *.img),