Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal difference...

2015-05-20 Thread Martin Reuter
Hi Gonzalo, images across scanners are not comparable. You basically change everything there is: vendor, field strength. In addition to that, even if you used the same scanner three years later, there is lot's of reasons, a brain can look larger: - less motion artefacts - better hydration leve

Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal difference...

2015-05-19 Thread Jorge Jovicich
Hola Gonzalo, field strength affects T1, so different field strengths (e.g., 1.5T vs 3.0T) give somewhat different T1 contrast, which Freesurfer uses to estimate surfaces and boundaries to then thickness and volumes. You would have probably found also morphometric differences even if you would

[Freesurfer] Longitudinal difference...

2015-05-19 Thread Gonzalo Rojas Costa
Hi: We have GE 1.5T MRI fspgr volumetric acquisition of a MS patient (39 years old) and a Siemens 3T MRI mprage acquisition of the same patient three years after (42 years old)... we processed that images to got the volume of some structures that we need and compare... but, we found that multiple b