the reason, as i understand it, is that the analyze format does not store orientation information. this means there is no way to tell left from right, which can lead to problems in both atlas alignment, and during multimodal (fmri) registration.
n. On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 13:32 -0500, Dr. Luis Guillermo Almeida Montes wrote: > Dear Nick: > > Some colleagues asked me some doubts about pre-processing in > FreeSurfer for MRI files. I remember you told me once that MRI files > in analyze format would be inappropiate to pre-process in FreeSurfer > suite. They work with this analyze format since their DICOM files can > ´t be processed because their files are compressed.Can you give > technicals details about the reasons about why analyze files cannot be > used in FreeSurfer for pre-processing? > > Thank you. > > > Best Regards. > Dr. Luis G. Almeida > _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail.
