Re: [Freesurfer] White matter atrophy

2017-04-20 Thread John Anderson
hite matter atrophy Local Time: April 20, 2017 10:04 AM UTC Time: April 20, 2017 2:04 PM From: ayend...@mgh.harvard.edu To: John Anderson , Freesurfer support list Hi John - Unless someone else has a better idea, the aseg (subcortical segmentation) contains left and right cerebral and cerebellar whit

[Freesurfer] Skull stripping

2017-04-28 Thread John Anderson
Dear FS experts, I want to inquire if there are any threshold for the flag "gcut " in the command: recon-all -skullstrip -clean-bm -gcut -subjid If this not available are there any tools that can help to control how much dura will be cut out Thanks in advance! John

Re: [Freesurfer] Volume vs cortical thickness

2017-05-02 Thread John Anderson
Hi Doug, Thank you for the detailed explanation! Please I have one follow-up question and I highly appreciate your input How can we explain results related to reduce cortical thickness and normal gray matter volume. Are these parameters two different thing or they are related to each other.? In o

Re: [Freesurfer] Volume vs cortical thickness

2017-05-02 Thread John Anderson
volumetric measures ? Thank you for any advice! You are speaking statistically, I assume? Ie, you see a sig change in volume and not thickness, or vice versa? If so, it can easily be explained by differences in noise On 5/2/17 5:00 AM, John Anderson wrote: Original Message Subject

Re: [Freesurfer] Volume vs cortical thickness

2017-05-02 Thread John Anderson
By noise, I just mean variability, which could come from those sources, but more likely come from intersubject variability. No good way to check those. It is looking like volume analysis has much higher false positive rates than thickness too. On 5/2/17 12:29 PM, John Anderson wrote: --

[Freesurfer] FSFAST

2017-05-05 Thread John Anderson
Dear Doug, I have Bold fMRI data (6 minutes of acquisition which is equal to 180 volume for every run). The total number for images is 140 (50 controls and 90 patients). I plan to use FSFAST (FS V6.0) to study: 1. The difference between the groups in global functional connectivity 2. Seed-based f

[Freesurfer] Surface area

2017-05-08 Thread John Anderson
Dear Freesurfer experts, I know that the grey or white matter volume measures for the ROIs reported in "wmparc.mgz" can be adjusted for the total intracranial volume Is is correct to do the same for surfaces? I mean can the surface of an ROI (e.g. precentral) be adjusted to total surface are

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area

2017-05-08 Thread John Anderson
. But adjusting by total surface area is ok too. On 05/08/2017 02:29 PM, John Anderson wrote: > Dear Freesurfer experts, > I know that the grey or white matter volume measures for the ROIs > reported in "wmparc.mgz" can be adjusted for the total intracranial > volume I

[Freesurfer] Volume comparison between groups and QDEC

2017-05-09 Thread John Anderson
Dear Dr Doug, I have two groups of subjects (80 patients and 40 controls). I analyzed the data using Freesurfer v6.0. I want to study the difference between the groups in "precentral gyrus volume". After "recon-all" I built Qdec table and I used Qdec to compute the comparison by including eTIV a

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface area

2017-05-10 Thread John Anderson
folded surface, the surface area actually goes up linearly with the volume. But adjusting by total surface area is ok too. On 05/08/2017 02:29 PM, John Anderson wrote: > Dear Freesurfer experts, > I know that the grey or white matter volume measures for the ROIs > reported in "w

Re: [Freesurfer] Volume comparison between groups and QDEC

2017-05-11 Thread John Anderson
can be used to test ROI volume. On 05/09/2017 05:58 PM, John Anderson wrote: > Dear Dr Doug, > I have two groups of subjects (80 patients and 40 controls). I > analyzed the data using Freesurfer v6.0. > I want to study the difference between the groups in "precentral gyrus &

[Freesurfer] mri_convert

2017-05-15 Thread John Anderson
Dear Freessurfer experts, i want to convert IMA files to nifti using mri_convert I did the following: mri_convert 54365413.ima output.nii I got this error WARNING: bad orientation matrix (determinant = 0) in nifti1 file ... ... continuing. if I run mri_info on output.nii I see voxel-to-ras dete

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_convert

2017-05-15 Thread John Anderson
Hi Doug thank you for the quick response! The source is a Siemens scanner. Data derived from the Spine. I don't know what is the optimal way to convert these ima images to nifti what is the source of the ima file? was it anonymized? You can try something like adding -iid -1 0 0 -ijd 0 1 0 -ikd

[Freesurfer] estimated Total Intracranial Volume

2017-05-22 Thread John Anderson
Dear experts, i want to know if the eTIV can be used to adjust non-morphometric measures like ,diffusion, PET, ASL ,, etc. Can these measures be adjusted to eTIV. if yes what is the correct command to be used? Thank you Jon___ Freesurfer mailing list F

[Freesurfer] TRACULA (dmri_motion)

2017-06-05 Thread John Anderson
Dear TRACULA experts, I plan to use TRACULA in freesurfer 6 to analyze DTI data. I want to kindly to inquire about the command "dmri_motion". This script,nicely, generates: the SNR, drop out score, # drop out slices and motion parameters. I highly appreciate if you can guide me to a method, so I

[Freesurfer] difference in T1 and T2 resolution

2017-06-11 Thread John Anderson
Dear Freesurfer experts, I have T1 and T2 images were unfortunately acquired with different resolution (i.e the voxel sizes is not the same) T1 is 280X280X208 T2 is 270X270X200 I tried to run "recon-all"  but it failed to process the data. The command that I used is : pbsubmit -c " recon-all

Re: [Freesurfer] difference in T1 and T2 resolution

2017-06-11 Thread John Anderson
/002.mgz.     Jon Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2017 at 2:12 PM From: "Matt Glasser" To: "Freesurfer support list" Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] difference in T1 and T2 resolution What was the error message?   Peace,   Matt.   From: <freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard

Re: [Freesurfer] difference in T1 and T2 resolution

2017-06-14 Thread John Anderson
Thank you for your response. The log file is attached     Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at 2:02 AM From: "Douglas Greve" To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] difference in T1 and T2 resolution can you send the log file?   On 6/11/17 10:08 PM, John Ande

Re: [Freesurfer] difference in T1 and T2 resolution

2017-06-14 Thread John Anderson
s probably not a good idea to try to combine them, but if you really want to, I can supply you with a solution.   On 6/14/17 1:12 PM, John Anderson wrote: Thank you for your response. The log file is attached     Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at 2:02 AM From: "Douglas Greve&q

[Freesurfer] substract images

2017-06-15 Thread John Anderson
Dear experts, I have image and mask and I want to subtract the mask from the image. Meaning I want to get image free of specific anatomical region. For example, I have image T1.nii for the brain and mask for the thalamus. How can I remove the thalamus from the T1 image to get T1 image free of th

Re: [Freesurfer] substract images

2017-06-15 Thread John Anderson
the brain. I highly aprreciate any suggestion.    Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 1:19 PM From: "Bruce Fischl" To: "Freesurfer support list" Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] substract images Hi Jon mri_mask should do the trick cheers Bruce On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, John Anderson wr

Re: [Freesurfer] substract images

2017-06-15 Thread John Anderson
t" Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] substract images Hi Jon use mri_binarize on your initial mask to create a new one for mri_mask (use --min and --max to specify the input mask intensity ranges that you want to be "on"), then give that to mri_mask cheers Bruce On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, John Anderso

Re: [Freesurfer] substract images

2017-06-15 Thread John Anderson
al 1 mri_mask T1.nii mask.rev.nii T1.masked.nii cheers Bruce On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, John Anderson wrote: > Hi Bruce, the mask is already binariz (min=0 ; max=1) > I tried > mri_mask T1.nii mask.nii output.nii >   > The output is a maked image meaning the structure behind the mask

[Freesurfer] CT DIOCMs

2017-06-28 Thread John Anderson
Dear Freesurfer experts, I have T1 images acquired using CT scan not MRI. I have the following questions please: 1. "mri_convert" failed to convert the dicoms to nifti, so I used "dcm2nii" part of mricron to convert the dicoms to nifti. I am wondering if there are any tools in Freesurfer to conv

[Freesurfer] mri_convert

2017-07-19 Thread John Anderson
Dear Freesurfer, Are there any tools in Freesurfer that can help to convert PET DICOMs to nifti files? Thank you for your help and for any suggestion Jon___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/l

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_convert

2017-07-19 Thread John Anderson
17 9:12 PM > From: fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > To: John Anderson , Freesurfer support list > > Hi Jon > have you tried mri_convert? > cheers > Bruce > On Wed, 19 Jul 2017, John Anderson wrote: >> Dear Freesurfer, >> Are there any tools in Freesurfer that can help to conv

[Freesurfer] FSFAST (plot-twf-sess)

2017-07-31 Thread John Anderson
Dear Dr Greeve, I am new to FSFAST so I highly appreciate your response. I have resting state fMRI data and I am following the steps as reported in wiki. My questions is regarding motion evaluation. The attached figure is an output of "plot-twf-sess". 1. Given the plotted data can we say that incl

[Freesurfer] fsfast

2017-08-02 Thread John Anderson
Dear Dr Greve, I am new to FSFAST so I highly appreciate your response. I have resting state fMRI data and I am following the steps as reported in wiki. I want to study the difference in functional connectivity between two groups My questions are regarding motion evaluation and the contrasts. 1.

Re: [Freesurfer] fsfast

2017-08-02 Thread John Anderson
-sess, you include this as the contrast. See the wiki for more details On 8/2/17 12:34 PM, John Anderson wrote: Dear Dr Greve, I am new to FSFAST so I highly appreciate your response. I have resting state fMRI data and I am following the steps as reported in wiki. I want to study the differen

Re: [Freesurfer] fsfast

2017-08-02 Thread John Anderson
FastFunctionalConnectivityWalkthrough > > When you make your analysis, you need to include something like -taskreg > L_Posteriorcingulate.dat > > Then when you run isxconcat-sess, you include this as the contrast. See the > wiki for more details > > On 8/2/17 12:34 PM, J

Re: [Freesurfer] fsfast

2017-08-02 Thread John Anderson
t; http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsFastFunctionalConnectivityWalkthrough >> >> When you make your analysis, you need to include something like -taskreg >> L_Posteriorcingulate.dat >> >> Then when you run isxconcat-sess, you include this as the contrast. See the

Re: [Freesurfer] susceptibility-induced distortions

2017-08-07 Thread John Anderson
gt; UTC Time: August 7, 2017 5:54 PM > From: fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > To: John Anderson , Freesurfer support list > > Hi John > I think the FSL group has some nice tools to fix these distortions either > with or without field maps (topup for example) > cheers > Bruce &

[Freesurfer] PET surfer

2017-08-10 Thread John Anderson
Hi Dr Greve, I have PET data for two groups and I used PET surfer in FSV 6.0 to run the analyses. The pipeline is straightforward and the analysis ran smoothly without any issues. Is it correct procedure to adjust PET signal to differences in gray matter volume or cortical thinness between two

Re: [Freesurfer] PET surfer

2017-08-10 Thread John Anderson
wiki. On 08/10/2017 04:11 AM, John Anderson wrote: > > Hi Dr Greve, > > I have PET data for two groups and I used PET surfer in FSV 6.0 to run > the analyses. The pipeline is straightforward and the analysis ran > smoothly without any issues. > > Is it correct proced

Re: [Freesurfer] PET surfer

2017-08-11 Thread John Anderson
o the analysis images in the native space then we re sample the images to the brain surface that's why we apply PVE? Is the registration to standard template exacerbates PVE? On 08/10/2017 11:35 AM, John Anderson wrote: > > Dear Dr Greve, > > Thank you very much for the gre

[Freesurfer] T1 motion and average

2017-08-15 Thread John Anderson
Dear Freesurfer experts, I have noisy four MEMPRAGE images each one has four volumes for the same participant. These T1 images were acquired at the same scanning session. I have two question: 1. Is there any tool in free surfer to average these images. 2. Is the average the images a good idea to

Re: [Freesurfer] T1 motion and average

2017-08-15 Thread John Anderson
> Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] T1 motion and average > Local Time: August 15, 2017 6:04 PM > UTC Time: August 15, 2017 10:04 PM > From: fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > To: John Anderson , Freesurfer support list > > > Hi John > > sure, mri_average -rms will take

[Freesurfer] dat to lta

2017-08-17 Thread John Anderson
Hi FS experts, Is there any way to convert the registration matrix reg.dat to reg.lta? Thank you John___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer The information in this e-mail

Re: [Freesurfer] dat to lta

2017-08-17 Thread John Anderson
ocal Time: August 17, 2017 1:54 PM > UTC Time: August 17, 2017 5:54 PM > From: fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > To: John Anderson , Freesurfer support list > > > I think lta_convert will do the trick. Check out the help > > cheers > Bruce > On Thu, 17 Aug > 2017, John

[Freesurfer] pet surfer

2017-08-18 Thread John Anderson
Hi Dr Greve, I followed the steps in WIKI to do SUV-surface based analyses + PVC. I have the following questions and I highly appreciate your input: 1. Why the dimension of the images (mgx.gm, mgx.ctx.gm and mgx.ctx.subgm) is not like the original SUV image that has been fed to the pipeline. i.

Re: [Freesurfer] pet surfer

2017-08-18 Thread John Anderson
AM, John Anderson wrote: Hi Dr Greve, I followed the steps in WIKI to do SUV-surface based analyses + PVC. I have the following questions and I highly appreciate your input: 1. Why the dimension of the images (mgx.gm, mgx.ctx.gm and mgx.ctx.subgm) is not like the original SUV image that has

[Freesurfer] mri_coreg

2017-08-21 Thread John Anderson
Dear Dr Greve, Kindly, I wanted to know why "mri_coreg" apples smoothing during registration. e.g. mri_coreg --s subject --mov template.nii.gz --reg template.reg.lta Are there any effects on the accuracy of smoothing if I turn off this default feature (specifically in pet surfer pipeline). mri

Re: [Freesurfer] smoothing

2017-08-21 Thread John Anderson
gt; analysis so I am curious about this difference between the images. > > Thanks for any clarification! > > On 8/18/17 10:20 AM, John Anderson wrote: > > Hi Dr Greve, > > I followed the steps in WIKI to do SUV-surface based analyses + PVC. I have > the following questions an

Re: [Freesurfer] smoothing

2017-08-21 Thread John Anderson
12:15 PM, John Anderson wrote: > > Dear Dr Greve, > > Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. I have additional > question and I highly appreciate any clarification. > By reviewing the log file "mri_gtmpvc.log" I see that this program > apply smoothing F

Re: [Freesurfer] smoothing

2017-08-21 Thread John Anderson
reference that mri_gtmpvc rely on it to measure it? Thank you for any clarification! John read the petsurfer page for how to select the psf On 08/21/2017 04:52 PM, John Anderson wrote: \ > Original Message > Subject: Re: smoothing > Local Time: August 21, 2017

[Freesurfer] mri_vol2surf

2017-08-22 Thread John Anderson
Dear FS experts, I ran voxel-wise analysis between two groups using randomise in FSL and the final statistical maps is as attached. I aim to to repeat the analysis using surface based analysis. I followed the steps as in wiki. I am not sure what is the correct value for projfrac int he command

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_vol2surf

2017-08-22 Thread John Anderson
> Thank you for the response > > It is FDG SUV map > > need more info, eg, what kind of map is that? what modality? > >> Original Message >> Subject: mri_vol2surf >> Local Time: August 22, 2017 11:04 AM >> UTC Time: August 22, 2017 3:04 PM >> From: john.ande...@protonmail.com >> T

[Freesurfer] sub cortical analysis

2017-08-24 Thread John Anderson
Hi Dr Greve, I am using pet surfer to analyze suv images. I followed all the steps in wiki, I used the option mgx then I fed the images mgx.{ctxgm,subctxgm,gm} into surface based analysis for left and right hemispheres. I want to inquire about the sub cortical analysis. 1. I assume the analysi

[Freesurfer] sub-cortical analysis

2017-08-29 Thread John Anderson
Hi Dr Greve, I am using pet surfer to analyze suv images. I followed all the steps in wiki, I used the option mgx then I fed the images mgx.{ctxgm,subctxgm,gm} into surface based analysis for left and right hemispheres. I want to inquire about the sub cortical analysis. 1. I assume the analysi

[Freesurfer] aparc.DKTatlas+aseg.mgz

2017-08-30 Thread John Anderson
Dear experts, looking into the output of Freesurfer in this page https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/ReconAllOutputFiles I see that there should be a file named "aparc.DKTatlas+aseg.mgz". Do I need FLAIR images to get this file. I ran the command recon-all --s subj --all and I can';t find

Re: [Freesurfer] aparc.DKTatlas+aseg.mgz

2017-08-31 Thread John Anderson
Dear experts, looking into the output of Freesurfer in this page https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/ReconAllOutputFiles I see that there should be a file named "aparc.DKTatlas+aseg.mgz". Is this atlas can be generated with the presence of FLAIR images. When i run recon-all without FLAIR o

Re: [Freesurfer] aparc.DKTatlas+aseg.mgz

2017-08-31 Thread John Anderson
August 31, 2017 3:11 PM > UTC Time: August 31, 2017 7:11 PM > From: ebo...@mgh.harvard.edu > To: Freesurfer support list , John Anderson > > > Hi John, > > Which version of FreeSurfer are you running? > > Emma > > - > > Emma Boyd > > Research

Re: [Freesurfer] aparc.DKTatlas+aseg.mgz

2017-08-31 Thread John Anderson
> Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] aparc.DKTatlas+aseg.mgz > Local Time: August 31, 2017 4:04 PM > UTC Time: August 31, 2017 8:04 PM > From: fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > To: John Anderson , Freesurfer support list > > "Boyd, Emma" > > Hi John > > the atl

[Freesurfer] QC cortical thickness measurements

2017-09-01 Thread John Anderson
Dear FS experts, my apologizes if my question is a simple one. I am new to Freesurfer and I appreciate if you help me. After running recon-all on a T1 image I reached the final step and the analysis ran smoothly without any issues.. Now what I need to check in the output images to be sure that t

[Freesurfer] BA Labels

2017-09-13 Thread John Anderson
Dear FS experts, I have SUV maps for subjects within two groups. I moved these SUV maps into surface then I concatenated the images in the order of two groups then I used the compiled file in a glm analysis to check the difference between the two groups. I aim to use V1 Atlas to derive the SUV

Re: [Freesurfer] BA Labels

2017-09-13 Thread John Anderson
2017 6:57 PM > From: fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > To: John Anderson , Freesurfer support list > > > Hi John > > if you have run recon-all you should have a bunch of ex vivo BA labels in > the label dir. > > cheers > Bruce > On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, John Anderson wro

Re: [Freesurfer] BA Labels

2017-09-13 Thread John Anderson
11 PM > From: fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > To: John Anderson > Freesurfer support list > > you should be able to use mris_anatomical_stats I believe > > cheers > Bruce > On Wed, 13 Sep > 2017, John Anderson wrote: > >> Thank you Dr Bruce, >> The stat values for ever

[Freesurfer] 3D visualization

2017-09-29 Thread John Anderson
Dear FS experts, Are there any tools in freesurfer for 3D visualization (e.g. glass brain)? Any recommendations are appreciated Thanks John___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesu

[Freesurfer] surface based correlation analysis

2017-10-24 Thread John Anderson
Dear Dr Doug, I want to study the relationship between PET signal measured as the mean signal of the whole cortex and gray matter volume to find regions of association between gray matter atrophy and PET signal. In this case I will need to run surface based analysis and the FSGD file must be "O

[Freesurfer] mean cortical thickness map

2017-11-12 Thread John Anderson
Dear Freesurfer community, I want to visualize the mean cortical thickness map of 20 subjects. I ran the command recon-all on the the T1 images. How can I visualize the mean cortical thickness of one group. Thanks for any advice John___ Freesurfer mail

[Freesurfer] FA to MNI

2017-11-30 Thread John Anderson
Dear Freesurfer experts, I want to register FA map in subject space to MNI. How can I do it using freesurfer tools? Any advice is highly appreciated! J___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/li

Re: [Freesurfer] FA to MNI

2017-11-30 Thread John Anderson
PM > UTC Time: November 30, 2017 8:54 PM > From: fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > To: John Anderson , Freesurfer support list > > > Hi John > > if your FA map is registered to the structurals (e.g. using bbregister) > then you would just compose that transform with the talairach.

[Freesurfer] transformation matrix

2017-12-01 Thread John Anderson
Dear FS experts, Is there any transformation matrix between the files /mri/orig.mgz and the file /mri/rawavg.mgz Please advice! John___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer

[Freesurfer] mri_binarize

2017-12-03 Thread John Anderson
Dear FS experts, I want to use mri_binarize to create (binarized and free of CSF and ventricles) mask from "aparc.DKTatlas+aseg". How can I substract CSF and ventricles from teh atlas using mri_binarize? Thanks John___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfe

[Freesurfer] subtract CSF

2017-12-04 Thread John Anderson
Dear FS experts, I want to create mask from the atlas "aparc.DKTatlas+aseg.mgz". I need the mask to be free of any CSF or ventricles components. Is there any way to subtract these labels (CSF and ventricles) from the atlas "aparc.DKTatlas+aseg.mgz". Thank you for your help John__

[Freesurfer] power analysis

2017-12-11 Thread John Anderson
Dear Freesurfer exerts, I read sentences similar to this one in multiple publications (e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3500581/) "Power analyses were carried out using vertex-wise variance estimates from the coregistered cortical thickness maps, systematically varying processing

[Freesurfer] cortical thickness smoothing

2017-12-12 Thread John Anderson
Dear Freesurfer experts, I ran recon-all with the flag -qcache to generate smoothed cortical thickness maps. In order to check how the flag "-qcache" is smoothing the cortical thickness data. I looked into the file $subj_dir/scripts/recon-all.log" which showed that the following command was appl

Re: [Freesurfer] cortical thickness smoothing

2017-12-12 Thread John Anderson
Thanks in advance! J > Original Message > Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] cortical thickness smoothing > Local Time: December 12, 2017 10:38 AM > UTC Time: December 12, 2017 3:38 PM > From: fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > To: John Anderson , Freesurfer support list > >

Re: [Freesurfer] cortical thickness smoothing

2017-12-13 Thread John Anderson
urf or mris_fwhm). On 12/12/2017 11:23 AM, John Anderson wrote: > Dear Dr Bruce, I highly appreciate the response. > I want to smooth PET volumetric images, when I use "fslmaths", it > shifts the signal from the cortex to the underlying structures. I > think (depending

[Freesurfer] mri_nlfilter

2017-12-14 Thread John Anderson
Dear Dr Bruce, Kindly, I have question regarding the command "mri_nlfilter". I am sorry if my questions is simple, but I highly appreciate any explanation to improve my understanding. I see in the man list of the command "mri_nlfilter" that it can apply Gaussian filtering and blurring kernell.

[Freesurfer] extra brain tiussue

2017-12-15 Thread John Anderson
Dear FS experts, I want to extra the extra brain tissue. Is it correct to subtract orig.mgz from aparc+aseg? Is this provide accurate estimates forrhe space between the brain tissue and the skull. Kindly, do you suggest me better solution? Thanks for any advice! J_

[Freesurfer] combining masks

2018-01-10 Thread John Anderson
Dear Freesurfer experts, I want to create mask for the midbrain and the precentral gyrus. I used FSV6 to do the reconstruction. Then I used the flag -brainstem-structures in recon-all to segment the brain stem. How can I create one mask that include structures from wmpac.mgz and brainstemSsLabels

Re: [Freesurfer] combining masks

2018-01-10 Thread John Anderson
only problem will be if the brainstem seg is higher res than wmpar On 01/10/2018 11:10 AM, John Anderson wrote: > Dear Freesurfer experts, > I want to create mask for the midbrain and the precentral gyrus. > I used FSV6 to do the reconstruction. Then I used the flag > -brainstem-struct

Re: [Freesurfer] combining masks

2018-01-10 Thread John Anderson
ask.mgz -o final.mask.mgz > > The only problem will be if the brainstem seg is higher res than wmpar > > On 01/10/2018 11:10 AM, John Anderson wrote: > >> Dear Freesurfer experts, > >> I want to create mask for the midbrain and the precentral gyrus. > >> I used

[Freesurfer] PET partial volume correction

2018-01-12 Thread John Anderson
Dear Dr Greeve, I interestingly read the manuscript "Different partial volume correction methods lead to different conclusions: An (18)F-FDG-PET study of aging" Thank you for publishing this data. I understood from this paper that he recommended stream for PVC is to correct the PET images using

[Freesurfer] PET partial volume correction

2018-01-18 Thread John Anderson
Dear Dr Greeve, I interestingly read the manuscript "Different partial volume correction methods lead to different conclusions: An (18)F-FDG-PET study of aging" Thank you for publishing this data. I understood from this paper that he recommended stream for PVC is to correct the PET images using

[Freesurfer] mri_coreg

2018-01-18 Thread John Anderson
Dear FS developers, Are there any versions of "mri_coreg" that allows to output the registered images. I mean flag "--out or -o" similar to spmregister? Thanks for any guidance John___ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.

Re: [Freesurfer] PET partial volume correction

2018-01-18 Thread John Anderson
-- Original Message On January 18, 2018 4:34 PM, John Anderson wrote: It is volume-based for subcortical On 1/12/18 8:17 AM, John Anderson wrote: > Dear Dr Greeve, > I interestingly read the manuscript "Different partial volume correction > methods lead to different conclu

[Freesurfer] manual edits

2018-05-30 Thread John Anderson
External Email - Use Caution Dear FS experts, My question is very basic and I appreciate your help. I ran recon-all on a low quality T1 image. I'd like to fix the segmentation error (attached). Wm.mgz seems to be fine and the wm intensity is ~110. Can this error be fixed by sett

Re: [Freesurfer] manual edits

2018-05-30 Thread John Anderson
> the interior of the ?h.white surfaces. Is that what you thought was > > incorrect? > > cheers > > Bruce > > On Wed, 30 May 2018, John Anderson wrote: > > > External Email - Use Caution > > > > Dear FS experts, > > > > My question

Re: [Freesurfer] manual edits

2018-05-30 Thread John Anderson
you want to > > do that is impacted by this? If you upload the subject we will take a look, > > but these regions are typically excluded from the surface analysis as they > > are non-cortical anyway. > > cheers > > Bruce > > On Wed, 30 May 2018, John And

[Freesurfer] mri_Coreg or bbregister

2018-07-03 Thread John Anderson
External Email - Use Caution Dear Freesurfer experts, I have ten PET frames for every subject in my database. these frames represent specific time during PET acquisition. Due to head motion during acquisition the frames are not fully overlapped on top of each other. I created tem

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_Coreg or bbregister

2018-07-03 Thread John Anderson
r that job ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On July 3, 2018 1:51 PM, John Anderson wrote: > Dear Freesurfer experts, > I have ten PET frames for every subject in my database. these frames > represent specific time during PET acquisition. Due to head motion during > acquisition the frames are not f

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_Coreg or bbregister

2018-07-03 Thread John Anderson
--o frame1.reg.nii This will use trilinear interpolation by default, but that is probably ok here. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On July 3, 2018 2:29 PM, John Anderson wrote: > Hi Dr Greve, > If the individual PET frames are named: frame1.nii frame2.nii, frame3.nii ... > frame10

[Freesurfer] Visualization of surface based analysis results

2018-07-05 Thread John Anderson
External Email - Use Caution Dear Freesurfer experts, I ran surface based analysis between two groups using PET surfer to study the difference in PET signal between two groups. I followed the same steps as in wiki and everything went fine. To visualize the final statistical maps,

[Freesurfer] Correct for sulcuses & ventricles size

2018-07-11 Thread John Anderson
External Email - Use Caution Dear Freesurfer experts, I have two groups of subjects (healthy and patients). The patients have different degrees of atrophy. Looking into the individual scans, the subjects are largely different in the space between the sulcuses and the size of ven

Re: [Freesurfer] Correct for sulcuses & ventricles size

2018-07-11 Thread John Anderson
looking for, no? The space between the sulci and the ventricle volume won't directly affect surface-based analysis, but of course the sulcal widening likely reflects cortical atrophy that will be cheers Bruce ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On July 11, 2018 11:37 AM, John Anderson

[Freesurfer] mri_binarize

2018-07-20 Thread John Anderson
External Email - Use Caution Dear Freesurfer experts, I would like to inquire about the flag --subcort-gm in mri_binarize. It seems that the final product of this flag create a mask include the brain stem which is largely white matter. Why it was included in the subcortical gray

[Freesurfer] petsurfer

2018-07-25 Thread John Anderson
External Email - Use Caution Dear Petsurfer experts, I used partsurfer in FS6 and had applied partial volume correction (PVC) on PET data. I followed the same steps as in wiki which was very well explained! Thank you!. The analyses went fine... I would like to inquire about some

Re: [Freesurfer] petsurfer

2018-07-25 Thread John Anderson
External Email - Use Caution Dear Dr Greve, thank you for great responses and detailed explanation! Very highly appreciated!! Thank you for sharing that valuable manuscript! Wish you all the best, John On 7/25/18 8:31 AM, John Anderson wrote: Dear Petsurfer experts, I used

[Freesurfer] register mask to fsaverage

2018-07-26 Thread John Anderson
External Email - Use Caution Dear Freesurfer experts, I have mask in MNI152 space. I would like to register this mask to fsaverage. How can I do this registration. I am thinking of "mri_vol2surf" as follows: mri_vol2surf --mov mask.nii --mni152reg --regheader fsaverage --o mask_

Re: [Freesurfer] register mask to fsaverage

2018-07-26 Thread John Anderson
Don't use --regheader, use --reg $FREESURFER_HOME/average/mni152.register.dat On 7/26/18 4:40 PM, John Anderson wrote: ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On July 26, 2018 4:40 PM, John Anderson wrote: > Dear Freesurfer experts, > I have mask in MNI152 space. I would like to register t

Re: [Freesurfer] register mask to fsaverage

2018-07-26 Thread John Anderson
ol2surf may not be very accurate since it uses volume-based operation. On 7/26/18 5:19 PM, John Anderson wrote: ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On July 26, 2018 5:19 PM, John Anderson wrote: > Dear Dr Greve, thank you so much. kindly have one additional question and I > appreciate your

[Freesurfer] Filling holes

2018-08-02 Thread John Anderson
External Email - Use Caution Dear Freesurfer experts, I would like to inquire whether there is (are) any command(s) in FS6.0 that can help to fill holes in a brain mask without dilating it? I would appreciate any advice, John___ Freesur

[Freesurfer] Filling holes

2018-08-02 Thread John Anderson
External Email - Use Caution Dear Freesurfer experts, I would like to inquire if there is any command/method in FS6.0 that can help to fill holes in a brain mask without dilating it? I would appreciate any advice! John___ Freesurfer mai

Re: [Freesurfer] Filling holes

2018-08-02 Thread John Anderson
External Email - Use Caution Dear Dr Bruce, thank you!! Hi John you can try a morphological close using mri_morphology. cheers Bruce ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On August 2, 2018 3:15 PM, John Anderson wrote: > Dear Freesurfer experts, > I would like to inqu

[Freesurfer] SNA covariate in cortical thickness between groups analysis

2018-08-03 Thread John Anderson
External Email - Use Caution Daer FS experts, I would like to inquire about including SNR as a covariate for the between groups cpmparison in cortical thickness. Is this procedure correct mathematically? Do I need to demean the SNA values before including it covariates? Finally,

Re: [Freesurfer] SNR covariate in cortical thickness & volumetrics between groups analyses

2018-08-05 Thread John Anderson
External Email - Use Caution > Dear FS experts, > I would like to inquire about including SNR as a covariate for the between > groups comparison in cortical thickness. Is this procedure valid? I have some > T1 images of low quality and the majority are high in quality. I reviewed

Re: [Freesurfer] SNR covariate in cortical thickness & volumetrics between groups analyses

2018-08-05 Thread John Anderson
you weight by the SNR. Still, mathematically, this is not a true mixed effect analysis (which requires estimates of the within and between subject noise). ` On 8/3/18 10:57 AM, John Anderson wrote: ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On August 5, 2018 1:04 PM, John Anderson wrote: >> Dear FS e

[Freesurfer] Map image in MNI onto fsaverage

2018-11-19 Thread john Anderson
External Email - Use Caution Dear Freesurfer experts, I have the mean PET images for a number of subjects in MNI152 space. For visualization purposes, I would like to map this mean image onto brain surface. How can I do it. I appreciate any suggestion you may provide. Thanks! Joh

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