[Freesurfer] Conversion niifty to dcm

2013-10-24 Thread stdp82
Hi list, there is a way to convert niifty or .par/.rec in DICOM? Thank you very much, Stefano ___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer The information in this e-mail is in

Re: [Freesurfer] blood hyper-intensity

2013-10-24 Thread Sebastian Moeller
Hi Colin, On Oct 24, 2013, at 00:24 , Colin Reveley wrote: > Hi - > > I wonder if anyone has experience in dealing with T1 images where there is > hyperintenisty of blood vessels? This looks like receive & transmit surface coil data to me. For MPRAGEs, in my experience, switching t

[Freesurfer] improvement of segmentation qualitiy by setting control points

2013-10-24 Thread Annemarie Brandhofe
Dear freesurfer community, we have encountered some problems with setting control points to improve segmentation quality. Mainly, white matter was classified as grey matter after completion of the first run that incorporated control points. Now we have several questions, we would be very thankful

Re: [Freesurfer] installation trouble - error message subjects directory not recognised

2013-10-24 Thread Z K
Hi Sven, Whats most likely happening is that you are defining SUBJECTS_DIR prior to sourcing SetUpFreeSurfer.csh. Freesurfer will not overwrite the SUBJECTS_DIR environment variable if it already exists at the time of sourcing the SetUpFreeSurfer.csh. This is most likely occuring in your .cshr

[Freesurfer] Volumes in native or normalized space, and eTIV

2013-10-24 Thread Dorian P.
Dear all, Excuse if these are simple questions but I am a bit confused on the significance of the volume measures. 1. Are the volumes of ROIs calculated after normalization? 2. If volumes are calculated post-normalization, why is correction for eTIV needed? 3. What is the quickest way to correc

Re: [Freesurfer] TRACULA statistics

2013-10-24 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
No, the last 3 columns (Min Max Range) are the minimum, maximum, and range (maximum - minimum) or the values in path.pd.nii.gz. But it does look like mri_segstats can get you what you want, if you use a binarized version of path.pd.nii.gz. Use mri_binarize (possibly with a threshold, if you

Re: [Freesurfer] installation trouble - error message subjects directory not recognised

2013-10-24 Thread muellersvenc
Hi Zeke, that seems to have worked (strangely because I didn't really do anything different before other than a fresh reinstall). However, now I have problems with the license file when trying to test the installation as suggested on the "Testing your freesurfer installation" webpage. I did

Re: [Freesurfer] installation trouble - error message subjects directory not recognised

2013-10-24 Thread Z K
If there really is a .license in the FREESURFER_HOME directory then everything should be working fine. What is the output when you type: 'ls -l /Applications/freesurfer/.license' at the command line? And what is the output when you type: 'ls -l $FREESURFER_HOME/.license' On 10/24/2013 11:25 A

Re: [Freesurfer] [martinos-tech] FSFAST between-conditions contrasts

2013-10-24 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Sue, that looks correct. I think it is an open question as to whether you should use the corrected maps or use the uncorrected and then correct the final map. Maybe someone else can chime in. doug On 10/23/2013 09:49 AM, Susan Ruiz wrote: > Hi Doug, > > This is /very/ helpful. > > Procedur

Re: [Freesurfer] Problem in final analysis

2013-10-24 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Carina, I still don't understand what you are trying to do. It looks like you have run the individual analysis (recon-all). Have you looked at the results for the individual? Do they look ok? QDEC is for group analysis, but you should make sure that the individuals look ok first doug On 10/

Re: [Freesurfer] fast_selxavg3.m - ERROR: design is ill-conditioned

2013-10-24 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Ronny, you added 5 new conditions, so it should have increased by at least 5. However, if you are using a derivative with the HRF, then you will have 2 regressors for each condition and it will increase by 10. I don't know why it does not like the 2nd one. Can you send me the Xtmp.mat file?

[Freesurfer] Extracting individuals data at a vertex

2013-10-24 Thread O'Shea,Andrew
Hello FS experts, In QDEC when I click on a vertex a scatter plot is generated with each individuals data for that vertex. Is there a simple way to extract that data (for each subject) into spreadsheet form for a specific vertex? -Andrew ___ Freesurfer

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_glmfit-sim with conjunction maps but without pre-cached data

2013-10-24 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Caspar, there are a couple of things you can do: 1. Go into the mri_glmfit folder used to create the input contrasts to the conjunction. Create a subfolder. Save the conjunction as sig.mgz and create a file called "C.dat" (it can be empty) in this folder. Then run mri_glmfit-sim specifying

[Freesurfer] label issues (converting from the MNI space to the Talairach space)

2013-10-24 Thread Qi Wu
Hi Freesurfer users, I need to design a ROI map for my project. It has to be based on certain coordinates. The ideal is to draw a circle based on the coordinates in the Talairach space in Freesurfer, which I do not know how to achieve. The alternative is to draw a spherical cluster in fsl and conv

Re: [Freesurfer] Conversion niifty to dcm

2013-10-24 Thread Douglas N Greve
no we don't, sorry On 10/24/2013 07:26 AM, std...@virgilio.it wrote: > Hi list, > > there is a way to convert niifty or .par/.rec in DICOM? > > Thank you very much, > > > Stefano > > > ___ > Freesurfer mailing list > Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > https

Re: [Freesurfer] skull striping error question

2013-10-24 Thread Douglas N Greve
How far outside are they? Can you send a pic? doug On 10/23/2013 01:16 PM, Subhabrata Chaudhury wrote: > Even the Supratentorial volume ? Supratentorial volume includes some > structures outside the surfaces ? > Thanks > Subha > >> - Original Message - >> >> From: Bruce Fischl >> >> Sent:

Re: [Freesurfer] Volumes in native or normalized space, and eTIV

2013-10-24 Thread Douglas N Greve
On 10/24/2013 10:37 AM, Dorian P. wrote: > Dear all, > > Excuse if these are simple questions but I am a bit confused on the > significance of the volume measures. > > 1. Are the volumes of ROIs calculated after normalization? No, everything is done in native space. > > 2. If volumes are calculat

Re: [Freesurfer] Extracting individuals data at a vertex

2013-10-24 Thread Douglas N Greve
You can do this, eg, to extract vertex 529 mri_segstats --i /path/to/qdec/Untitled/y.mgh --seg $SUBJECTS_DIR/fsaverage/surf/lh.curv --sum junk.sum --id 1 --avgwf vertex.529.dat --vox 529 0 0 doug On 10/24/2013 11:47 AM, O'Shea,Andrew wrote: > Hello FS experts, > In QDEC when I click on a v

Re: [Freesurfer] fast_selxavg3.m - ERROR: design is ill-conditioned

2013-10-24 Thread Douglas N Greve
I think the problem is that the order of the conditions is always the same combined with an absence of fixation points. I don't think you can do this analysiswith this design. doug On 10/24/2013 12:08 PM, preci...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: > Xtmp.mat Attached > > >> Hi Ronny, you added 5 new

Re: [Freesurfer] How do you create labels from binary masks?

2013-10-24 Thread Douglas N Greve
Can you load it properly in tksurfer? On 10/23/2013 12:44 AM, Marcos Martins da Silva wrote: > > Hi, Doug > Sorry for this late feedback. > Just so you can understand what is binLeftHippoBody.mgz I will explain > its origin. > 1) recon-all --hippo-subfields > 2) mri_concat the posterior*.mgz to

Re: [Freesurfer] Volumes in native or normalized space, and eTIV

2013-10-24 Thread Dorian P.
Thank you Douglas. The eTIV has values like 1543825. Dividing ROIs by this value would create very small values. Is there a standard TIV (i.e. from the talairach brain) to use as denominator for creating a ratio value? Or what is the best way to create a reasonable factor (i.e. 0.7-1.3) to correc

Re: [Freesurfer] Volumes in native or normalized space, and eTIV

2013-10-24 Thread Bruce Fischl
Why is a small # a problem? It simply represents the fraction of the total intracranial volume occupied by that structure. cheers Bruce On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Dorian P. wrote: > Thank you Douglas. > The eTIV has values like 1543825. Dividing ROIs by this value would create > very small values. >

[Freesurfer] v4.5.0: How to obtain total gray matter volume?

2013-10-24 Thread Natalie Garcia
Dear all, I've been using Freesurfer v4.5.0 for some time and have reconned about 100 participants. I am wondering if there is an automatic way to obtain the total gray matter volume for all the subjects I have run so far under this version, or would it be necessary to update to v5.2? Any help wo

[Freesurfer] Total WM volume

2013-10-24 Thread Fotiadis, Panagiotis
Hi FS Community, Does the "Total cortical white matter volume" parameter in the aseg.stats file represent the total wm volume in the brain? Thank you in advance, Panos ___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harv

Re: [Freesurfer] installation trouble - error message subjects directory not recognised

2013-10-24 Thread Z K
Sven, Well that certainly is odd that. My guess is that there is some sort of extension that Mac is hiding in the finder window (along the lines of what you were talking about with the text editor). Im also a little concerned about the double '//' that is part of your FREESURFER_HOME environme

Re: [Freesurfer] problem with freesurfer installation/tkmedit

2013-10-24 Thread Louis Nicholas Vinke
Hi Elissa, The invalid drawable terminal output you can ignore when running Freeview. Presumably bert is not located in /Applications/freesurfer/elissa_thesis/, so that's why the bert commands are failing. Not the same subjects directory that ABU is in. To fix the tkmedit library error it lo

[Freesurfer] longitudinal measures

2013-10-24 Thread Qi Wu
Hi Freesurfer users, For the longitudinal stream in FS5.1, there are only 4 options of measures (do-avg, do-rate, do-pc1 and do-spc). However, if I need other measures, such as the difference between two time points (thick2-thick1), how should I do to get the values and still be able to do the vox

[Freesurfer] Incorrect orientations from MRI convert

2013-10-24 Thread Chiu, Bryan (PHTH)
Hi, I am working on a dataset using free surfer. I have NIFTII files which I am converting using mri_convert. Upon completion of mri_convert, the orientations of the files are wrong. This likely leads to an incorrect talairach (I was getting errors but used -notal-check) and leads to an incorr

Re: [Freesurfer] Incorrect orientations from MRI convert

2013-10-24 Thread Douglas N Greve
How do you know the nifti files are correctly oriented to begin with? doug On 10/24/2013 07:07 PM, Chiu, Bryan (PHTH) wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on a dataset using free surfer. > > I have NIFTII files which I am converting using mri_convert. Upon > completion of mri_convert, the orientations of

Re: [Freesurfer] How do you create labels from binary masks?

2013-10-24 Thread Douglas N Greve
areyou loading the label (output of mri_cor2label) or did you create an annotation? Try loading the label. Then try loading LeftHippoBody_surf.mgh. If that does not look ok, check the registration between binLeftHippoBody.mgz and subj1 with --regheader doug On 10/24/2013 06:40 PM, Marcos Mart