[Freesurfer] A question regarding high FA values when running DTI script

2013-02-18 Thread Rotem Saar
Hi all, I run into somthing that seems odd to me and wanted to consult - I run the following script for getting the FA values from my DTI scans: 1) dt_recon --i /usr/local/freesurfer/subjects/FOLDER-NAME/DTI/I1.dcm --s FOLDER-NAME --o /usr/local/freesurfer/subjects/FOLDER-NAME/DTI --b /usr/lo

[Freesurfer] Cortical thickness analysis on data acquired from multiple sites

2013-02-18 Thread Sinead Kelly
Dear members, I would like to get your opinion on this issue - I have a dataset of over 400 subjects but under half of this data was acquired on a 1.5T scanner and the rest was acquired on a 3T scanner. Would it be acceptable to conduct cortical thickness analysis on the combined dataset? From rea

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical thickness analysis on data acquired from multiple sites

2013-02-18 Thread Jorge Jovicich
Dear Sinead, we found global significant differences in thickness between 1.5T and 3T, in a group of subjects that was scanned at both scanners (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16651008). I think that nothing stops you from doing the analysis, but maybe model in a field effect to asset it i

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical thickness analysis on data acquired from multiple sites

2013-02-18 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Sinead I agree with Jorge - there is bound to be a substantial scanner effect. You might be better off keeping the data separate and treating the 3T as a confirmatory study. cheers Bruce On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Jorge Jovicich wrote: > Dear Sinead, > > we found global significant difference

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical thickness analysis on data acquired from multiple sites

2013-02-18 Thread Watson, Christopher
Hi Bruce, What if she created an FSGD file, and instead of just having "patients" and "controls", she would have "patients1.5", "patients3", etc.? With over 400 subjects this should be feasible, i.e. the loss of d.f. is worth running the combined analysis. Chris

Re: [Freesurfer] A question regarding high FA values when running DTI script

2013-02-18 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Rotem that does sound high. Have you checked the registation between your diffusion data and the anatomicals? cheers Bruce On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Rotem Saar wrote: > Hi all, > > I run into somthing that seems odd to me and wanted to consult - > I run the following script for getting the FA

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical thickness analysis on data acquired from multiple sites

2013-02-18 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Chris you could do that but the increased variance may make it less. You also could have a disease interaction such as changing tissue properties having different effects at 1.5T and 3T. With that many subjects I would think the more powerful statement is if you find maps that are similar wh

[Freesurfer] Fwd: trac-all problem

2013-02-18 Thread Jon Wieser
I ran trac-all -bedp -c /Studies/MJMRI/DTI/dmrirc_single_subject the end of the output was: 52 slices processed 52 slices processed 53 slices processed 53 slices processed 54 slices processed 54 slices processed 55 slices processed 55 slices processed 56 slices processed 57 slices processed 5

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical thickness analysis on data acquired from multiple sites

2013-02-18 Thread Sinead Kelly
Thank you all so much for your advice on this - The patient:control ratio is disproportionate in both datasets and I will also be splitting the subjects into genotype groups so I think I may consider running separate analyses on the two datasets to see if we find similar results. Thanks again for

[Freesurfer] extracting hand drawn ROIs to Afni space

2013-02-18 Thread Paul Beach
Hi there, Through the help of the Freesurfer Q&A staff I've been able to get ROIs drawn in tksurfer into an augmented aparc+aseg file of an averaged subject. I need to be able to get those ROIs, which are not part of the color LUT, into Afni space. For ROIs that are already in the LUT, getting th

Re: [Freesurfer] extracting hand drawn ROIs to Afni space

2013-02-18 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Paul we usually call those labels and have an ascii label file format. Not sure how to get that into AFNI, but I'm zure Ziad (ccd) knows. cheers Bruce On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Paul Beach wrote: Hi there, Through the help of the Freesurfer Q&A staff I've been able to get ROIs drawn in tksurf

Re: [Freesurfer] download freesurfer

2013-02-18 Thread Anderson M. Winkler
Hi Merlin, Have you tried "wget -c" to resume an interrupted download? You can put the command inside an infinite loop that will keep retrying even if the connection is interrupted when you are not watching (say, overnight). The following should work: while (true) ; do wget -c -T 60 ftp://surfer.

Re: [Freesurfer] extracting hand drawn ROIs to Afni space

2013-02-18 Thread Paul Beach
Thank you for forwarding this. I realize I need to further clarify my issue as well. With the help of Doug Greve I've taken hand made ROIs in tksurfer, repackaged them into a new annotation, and repackaged that into a new aseg file for an average subject. Now (and this is where I'm stuck) I'm try

Re: [Freesurfer] Fwd: trac-all problem

2013-02-18 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Jon - There's a list of all bedpostx output files here: http://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/fsl4.0/fdt/fdt_bedpostx.html Do you see these files in the dmri.bedpostX directory? a.y On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Jon Wieser wrote: I ran trac-all -bedp -c /Studies/MJMRI/DTI/dmrirc_single_subject the end

Re: [Freesurfer] TRACULA exited with errors

2013-02-18 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Fabricio - Any format that the mri_convert command can take as input is fine, so I'd try it on a sample data set and see. If this doesn't work, you'll have to convert your data to nifti in advance, and provide the gradient table and b-value table as well. Hope this helps, a.y On Sun, 17

Re: [Freesurfer] Fwd: trac-all problem

2013-02-18 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Jon - So the files are there but there's to be a memory allocation problem. Are you using the updated mac build from the tracula wiki page or the one that was originally released with freesurfer 5.1? a.y On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Jon Wieser wrote: > Hi , > > i have the following files in my dmr

Re: [Freesurfer] Fwd: trac-all problem

2013-02-18 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Jon - There was an updated build of the tracula executables specifically for macos users that was posted a while back. See the tracula wiki page: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Tracula Better yet, wait for 5.2 to be released later this week! a.y On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Jon Wieser wr

Re: [Freesurfer] Fwd: trac-all problem

2013-02-18 Thread ayendiki
The memory error was in the -path part, that's what you should try rerunning. What you downloaded will have no effect on bedpostx itself. > i just downloaded dmri_5.1_snow_leopard.tar.gz: from that web page and > installed the new version of the dmri file in the freessurfer /boin > directory > I