Thanks Nick,

Is use-mritotal equivalent to what version 5.0 does by default?

Also,  any suggestions on why this talairach error would occur only on a
portion of my data, despite all being collected with the same imaging
protocol, same conversions from dicom, etc?
-
Joshua Lee
Graduate Student
Center for Mind and Brain &
Department of Psychology
University of California, Davis
530.747.3805


On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Nick Schmansky <ni...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>wrote:

> joshua,
>
> try adding -use-mritotal to the end of your recon-all command.  it will
> use an alternate way to compute the talairach.xfm which works better on
> some data.
>
> the change from v5.0 to v5.1 in the talairach stage was that in v5.1,
> the talairach.xfm is needed to compute nu.mgz, so the talairach stage
> needs to precede the nu_correct stage.  this means the talairach stage
> can no longer use nu.mgz as input, which seems to work better than
> orig.mgz for some data (and is the case for your data).
>
> in the next release of freesurfer, recon-all will automatically try the
> alternate method (mritotal) if the default talairach_avi method fails
> the tal-check.
>
> n.
>
>
> On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 08:45 -0400, Bruce Fischl wrote:
> > can you send us an example that works in 5.0 and fails in 5.1?
> >
> > thanks
> > Bruce
> > On Wed, 2 Nov
> > 2011, Joshua Lee wrote:
> >
> > > Small Update: Error Disappears if Using Freesurfer version 5.0 instead
> of
> > > 5.1. However, since I am keenly interested in the hippocampal-subfield
> > > segmentation capabilities of the most recent version, I am loathe to
> regress
> > > to an earlier version of FreeSurfer
> > > -
> > > Joshua Lee
> > > Graduate Student
> > > Center for Mind and Brain &
> > > Department of Psychology
> > > University of California, Davis
> > > 530.747.3805
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Joshua Lee <jki...@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> > >       #@# Talairach Failure Detection Wed Nov  2 02:03:32 EDT 2011
> > >       /home/virtualuser/freesurfer/subjects/test005/mri
> > >
> > >        talairach_afd -T 0.005 -xfm transforms/talairach.xfm
> > >
> > >       I am receiving the error (pasted below) on about half of my
> > >       scans, despite all cans using same protocol. I detect no obvious
> > >       issue with the quality of the images. I have original dicoms,
> > >       and am using mri_convert to save into a single .mgz (or .nii,
> > >       doesn't neem to make a difference), and the unpredictability of
> > >       the error makes diagnosis problematic. TKMedit2 reveals
> > >       absolutely wacky registrations. I am processing on Freesurfer
> > >       5.1, and have replicated issue on two different installations. I
> > >       am designing a new longitudinal study inheriting the same
> > >       imaging protocol and I do not want to get in a situation
> > >       demanding manual editing of the talairach. Can anyone help me
> > >       out? Thanks, Joshua
> > >
> > >       ERROR: talairach_afd: Talairach Transform:
> > >       transforms/talairach.xfm ***FAILED*** (p=0.0030, pval=0.0000 <
> > >       threshold=0.0050)
> > >       Manual Talairach alignment may be necessary, or
> > >       include the -notal-check flag to skip this test,
> > >       making sure the -notal-check flag follows -all
> > >       or -autorecon1 in the command string.
> > >       See
> > >       http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/Talairach
> > >       Linux FreeSurfer 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17
> > >       01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
> > >
> > >       recon-all -s test005 exited with ERRORS at Wed Nov  2 02:03:32
> > >       EDT 2011
> > >
> > >       For more details, see the log file
> > >
> /home/virtualuser/freesurfer/subjects/test005/scripts/recon-all.log
> > >       To report a problem, see
> > >       http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/BugReporting
> > >
> > >       -
> > > Joshua Lee
> > > Graduate Student
> > > Center for Mind and Brain &
> > > Department of Psychology
> > > University of California, Davis
> > > 530.747.3805
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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