[Freesurfer] averaging brains over two sessions

2005-02-02 Thread Margaret Duff
Hello, I am trying to reconstruct brains of patients who had one structural scan during each of 2 visits, a month apart. I averaged the two images together, but since they are from different visits, they look very badly lined up. It looks like there is one image and another image overlaid and sh

Re: [Freesurfer] averaging brains over two sessions

2005-02-02 Thread Evelina Busa
Hi Margaret, How does the talairach transform look? On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Margaret Duff wrote: > Hello, I am trying to reconstruct brains of patients who had one > structural scan during each of 2 visits, a month apart. I averaged the > two images together, but since they are from different vis

Re: [Freesurfer] averaging brains over two sessions

2005-02-02 Thread Margaret Duff
The one using the orig is really horrible looking, very distorted and rotated. I tried using the brain volume, and it looks better, but also has a rimming/shadowing effect. On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Evelina Busa wrote: > > Hi Margaret, > > How does the talairach transform look? > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005,

Re: [Freesurfer] averaging brains over two sessions

2005-02-02 Thread Evelina Busa
Hi again, If the shadowing/rimming effect appears to be because of an artifact in one of the scans, then you might be better off to exclude that acquisition. But if each of the individual scans looks okay, then it does sound like improving your lousy average is dependent upon getting a better

Re: [Freesurfer] averaging brains over two sessions

2005-02-02 Thread Brian T. Quinn
i would not advise averaging data from two separate visits. use one or the other. On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Evelina Busa wrote: Hi again, If the shadowing/rimming effect appears to be because of an artifact in one of the scans, then you might be better off to exclude that acquisition. But if each of the

Re: [Freesurfer] averaging brains over two sessions

2005-02-02 Thread Evelina Busa
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Brian T. Quinn wrote: > i would not advise averaging data from two separate visits. > use one or the other. The auto-align feature aims to offer a fair degree of consistency between session scans, but if this was not the case (and it often isn't, because you cannot control f

Re: [Freesurfer] averaging brains over two sessions

2005-02-02 Thread Evelina Busa
Before you give up you could try running distortion correction on each of those volumes before you try averaging/motion correction again... On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Margaret Duff wrote: > The one using the orig is really horrible looking, very distorted and > rotated. I tried using the brain volume

[Freesurfer] talairaching functional data

2005-02-02 Thread Joongnam Yang
Hi, I ran "func2tal" with functional data (*.img) and got INFO: autodetected functype raw ERROR: only selxavg, selavg, and sfa functypes are currently supported How can I change *.img functional data into the above functypes? Thanks. Nam. ___ Freesu

Re: [Freesurfer] averaging brains over two sessions

2005-02-02 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Margaret, what are you using to align them? If they are from different sites, then they may not be possible to really align, due to differences in shims, read-out directions and bandwidth. Reconning with a single image is certainly doable (we've done hundreds), but is more labor intensive. c