Re: [Freesurfer] Using SPM transformation matrices as initial guess in talairach_avi

2012-07-10 Thread Baudrexel, Simon
Hi Bruce, I'm using freesurfer version 5.1.0. I currently try to process quantitative T1 (R1) maps derived from 4 and 18 deg. FLASH images and FA maps. Interestingly, transformation appears to fail less often when using single (16 deg.) FLASH images, only. SPM segmentation routine on the othe

Re: [Freesurfer] qdec

2012-07-10 Thread Nick Schmansky
Carolina, It means its smoothing on the surface with a kernel of 10mm full-width half-max. Smoothing on the surface can generally be larger than in a volume. See these slides for a description of the difference: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/docs/fs.surface-based-analysis.ppt you can u

Re: [Freesurfer] nu_correct problem

2012-07-10 Thread Nick Schmansky
Chris, This is an unusual error. I dont know why nu_correct would be found for some subjects but not others, if its being run on the same platform. I can only think this is a network issue. Is it replicable? nu_correct can be run from the command line. The intensity normalization issues in v5

Re: [Freesurfer] nu_correct problem

2012-07-10 Thread Oertel, Viola
Hello, I have got the following problem: if I want to load the qdec.table.dat, I get the following message: ERROR: 0xbfd96154 is invalid. Must have at least two levels. Attached is the table and the levels files. Do you know what is wrong? Best regards, Viola _

[Freesurfer] qdec - ERROR: CSDread():

2012-07-10 Thread Natalia h
Dear expert, I got an error while clicking the Monte Carlo simulation in qdec. I am using Mac 10.6 and qdec version 1.4, freesufer 5.1 Have no clue why it always gives this error in the terminal: mri_surfcluster --in /Longitudinal_template2/qdec/lh-thick-rate-10mm-group/lh-Avg-Intercept-long.thi

[Freesurfer] Flip brain

2012-07-10 Thread Tadeu Kubo
Hi Dear FS experts, Doug sent these links, but I can't download them. Do you have the new links? Download these filesftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/transfer/outgoing/flat/greve/surfregftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/transfer/outgoing/flat/greve/xhemiregftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/transfe

Re: [Freesurfer] nu_correct problem

2012-07-10 Thread Nick Schmansky
Viola, The .levels files need an extra carriage return after the last level (so that the cursor is on an empty line). But even doing that, I get an error for the gender.levels file that I cant figure out right now. But you can delete the gender.levels file and the qdec.table.dat file will load c

[Freesurfer] hippo_subfields questions

2012-07-10 Thread Gabriel Gonzalez Escamilla
Dear Fresurfer experts and Koen Van LeemputI have made the hippocampal subfield segmentation of a group a subject in which is supposed to take the hippocampus from the aseg segmentation and calculate the new subfields segmentations inside this hippocampus of each hemisphere, am I right?If so, The v

[Freesurfer] How to register FLAIR to T1?

2012-07-10 Thread Ed Gronenschild
Hi, I would like to register FLAIR to T1. Specifications FLAIR: axial acquisition, 24 slices, pixel size = 0.45 * 0.45 mm^2 slice thickness = 5.50 mm (no gap). The slices run from the top of the brain to just below the eyes. This is contrary to the T1 scan which covers the full head down to the n

Re: [Freesurfer] How to register FLAIR to T1?

2012-07-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
try -init-spm cheers Bruce On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Ed Gronenschild wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to register FLAIR to T1. > Specifications FLAIR: > axial acquisition, 24 slices, > pixel size = 0.45 * 0.45 mm^2 > slice thickness = 5.50 mm (no gap). > > The slices run from the top of the brain > to ju

Re: [Freesurfer] How to register FLAIR to T1?

2012-07-10 Thread Ed Gronenschild
Hi Bruce, It is slightly better but still displacements in all directions and rotations too exist. Ed On 10 Jul 2012, at 16:13, Bruce Fischl wrote: > try -init-spm > > cheers > Bruce > On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Ed Gronenschild wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to register FLAIR to T1. >> Specificat

Re: [Freesurfer] How to register FLAIR to T1?

2012-07-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Ed you are using -t2, right? You can also try -init-header cheers Bruce On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Ed Gronenschild wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > It is slightly better but still displacements > in all directions and rotations too exist. > > Ed > > On 10 Jul 2012, at 16:13, Bruce Fischl wrote: > >> try -in

Re: [Freesurfer] How to register FLAIR to T1?

2012-07-10 Thread Ed Gronenschild
Hi Bruce, Unfortunately, this has no effect. Ed On 10 Jul 2012, at 16:40, Bruce Fischl wrote: > Hi Ed > > you are using -t2, right? You can also try -init-header > > cheers > Bruce > On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, > Ed Gronenschild wrote: > >> Hi Bruce, >> >> It is slightly better but still displacements

Re: [Freesurfer] How to register FLAIR to T1?

2012-07-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Ed, sorry, you'll have to wait until Doug is back from vacation. Is this from the same session? I've always had it work on flair images using one of the types of initialization. cheers Bruce On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Ed Gronenschild wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > Unfortunately, this has no effect. > >

Re: [Freesurfer] How to register FLAIR to T1?

2012-07-10 Thread Ed Gronenschild
Hi Bruce, It is indeed from the same scan session. I'll wait patiently, let Doug enjoy his vacation before he gets bothered again by all our questions. Cheers, Ed On 10 Jul 2012, at 16:57, Bruce Fischl wrote: > Hi Ed, > > sorry, you'll have to wait until Doug is back from vacation. Is > this

[Freesurfer] no-aseg for make_average_subject

2012-07-10 Thread Leon
Hi, FreeSurfer experts I want to generate an average surface and volume using make_average_subject command based on some of my non-human primate data, which do not have aparc.annot data. I wonder if it is possible with FS. From the archive, I found some emails entitled "no seg", in which a --no

Re: [Freesurfer] How to register FLAIR to T1?

2012-07-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
glad to hear it :). You may need to repost (and possibly upload your data) On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Ed Gronenschild wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > It is indeed from the same scan session. > I'll wait patiently, let Doug enjoy his vacation before > he gets bothered again by all our questions. > > Cheers, > Ed

[Freesurfer] Finding name of labels

2012-07-10 Thread Sam Carpenter
Hi all, I have a simple problem that hopefully has a simple solution. I'm going through an annotation file, trying to find the names of select labels. In the tksurfer window at the bottom right it displays the name of the label file that the curser window is hovering over, BUT it only display

Re: [Freesurfer] WM edit problems

2012-07-10 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Chuck, The certain area in your snapshots you are refering to is the medial temporal lobe (hemisphere on left side of the image)? In the snapshots you have the pial, wm, and orig surface displayed. Please verify that the yellow line corresponds to the wm surface and not the orig surface.

Re: [Freesurfer] Finding name of labels

2012-07-10 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Sam, Try going to View->Windows->Labels. With that Labels window open, when you click on a certain label displayed on the surface in the main tksurfer window, the name of that label should become highlighted in the list displayed in the Labels window. You can adjust the size of the Labels

[Freesurfer] Combining linear transformations

2012-07-10 Thread Usman Khan
Hi FreeSurfer, I have two images. One MPRAGE (1x1x1mm) and a T1-weighted (0.682x0.682x3mm) image used for CBV mapping. We have run FS, with hippocampal subfields on the MPRAGE and would now like to transform the posterior probability maps to the T1-weighted CBV space. I have been using 1) mri_vol2

Re: [Freesurfer] Combining linear transformations

2012-07-10 Thread Martin Reuter
Hi Usman, you need to convert the reg to lta (using tkregister2) and then you can use mri_concatenate_lta . Cheers, Martin On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 17:36 -0400, Usman Khan wrote: > Hi FreeSurfer, > I have two images. One MPRAGE (1x1x1mm) and a T1-weighted > (0.682x0.682x3mm) image used for CBV ma

[Freesurfer] "Splotchy" labels after transformation from fsaverage to native

2012-07-10 Thread Michael Waskom
Hi, I'm using mri_label2label to reverse normalize labels from fsaverage space to the native surface. I'm ending up with some splotchy-looking labels, for lack of a better word. See what I mean here: http://web.mit.edu/mwaskom/www/splotchy.png I'm doing this normalization in a script with the f

Re: [Freesurfer] Combining linear transformations

2012-07-10 Thread Usman Khan
Hi Martin, Thanks for the quick reply. I tried the following commands, but it looks like the volumes are still out of line. Is there something I am missing? to get from hc_subfield --> nu.mgz --> t1_cbv #register and create transforms 1) mri_vol2vol --mov hc_subfield.mgz --targ nu.mgz --reg-final

Re: [Freesurfer] Combining linear transformations

2012-07-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Usman you may have to repost this question in a few days when Doug is back. cheers Bruce On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Usman Khan wrote: Hi Martin, Thanks for the quick reply. I tried the following commands, but it looks like the volumes are still out of line. Is there something I am missing? to

Re: [Freesurfer] Combining linear transformations

2012-07-10 Thread Martin Reuter
Hi Usman , Try validating each step by applying each transform. I usually use mri_convert -at  For it. Best MartinUsman Khan wrote:Hi Martin,  Thanks for the quick reply. I tried the following commands, but it looks like the volumes are still out of line. Is there something I am missing? to

[Freesurfer] Fwd: pars triangular and BA44 segmentation bug?

2012-07-10 Thread Gabor Perlaki
Dear Bruce, Did you also identified a strong rightward asymmetry (with pars triangular and BA44) in your data analyzed by freesurfer 5.1? Just, to be sure, that this is not an issue only with our data. I'd like to use the TRACULA as well, and because tracula uses the cortical parcellation of our s