Hi Maryam,

You should check your spm defaults to see whether it uses radiology or
neurology convention. Most likely your spm has flipped your image, and the
spmregister-sess is trying to match the left hemisphere of your functionals
to the right hemisphere of your anatomical.

-Yuhong

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Maryam Vaziri Pashkam
<mvazir...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I am new to freesurfer and I am analyzing fmri data on a Mac OSX 10.5.8
> computer using freesurfer 4.5. I have  SPM 8 and FSL also installed.
>
>
> I have two versions of matlab (matlab R2009b & R2008a) on my computer. I
> think spm runs through the R2009b on my computer. I have added the SPM path
> to the startup.m of both matlabs by adding the following line (they both
> point to the same startup.m ):
>
> path(path,'/Applications/spm8');
>
>
> I run preprocessing on the data using the following command:
>
> preproc-sess -nosmooth -sf retino-sess -df retino.dir
>
>
> then I run automatic registration with the following command:
>
> spmregister-sess -sf retino-sess -df retino.dir
>
>
> It runs smoothly and there seems to be no errors. But when I try to check
> the registration with this command:
>
>
> tkregister-sess -sf retino-sess -df retino.dir -inorm
>
>
> what I see is not a good registration. Isn't spm register supposed to do a
> good job in automatic registration? The one that I get still needs a lot of
> manual adjustment. Am I doing something wrong? I have attached the log files
> for spmregister and tkregister and a screen shot of the image that I get
> after running tkregister. I would appreciate any help in this matter.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Maryam
>
>
>
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