There is only one file in the series. Is that right? It's trying to 
compute the slice direction cosine, which it cannot do from one file.

On 07/03/2012 12:36 PM, Chen, Xiaoyan wrote:
> Hi,
>          I have the data from one of our collaborators. They are dicom files, 
> and they are collected from GE. I try to use mri_convert to convert the files 
> from dicom to nifti. However, the following error shows up.
>
>
>   mri_convert 1.2.840.113619.2.135.2025.3762570.5144.1309404440.95.dcm 
> 1.2.840.113619.2.135.2025.3762570.5144.1309404440.95.nii.gz
> mri_convert 1.2.840.113619.2.135.2025.3762570.5144.1309404440.95.dcm 
> 1.2.840.113619.2.135.2025.3762570.5144.1309404440.95.nii.gz
> $Id: mri_convert.c,v 1.179.2.2 2011/05/16 20:53:47 greve Exp $
> reading from 1.2.840.113619.2.135.2025.3762570.5144.1309404440.95.dcm...
> Starting DICOMRead2()
> dcmfile = 
> /autofs/cluster/randy/5/helen/resting_jiliang/1.2.840.113619.2.135.2025.3762570.5144.1309404440.95.dcm
> dcmdir = /autofs/cluster/randy/5/helen/resting_jiliang
> Ref Series No = 2
> Found 15 files, checking for dicoms
> Found 1 dicom files in series.
> First Sorting
> Computing Slice Direction
> Vs: 0 0 0
> Vs: nan nan nan
> Second Sorting
> Counting frames
> nframes = 1
> nslices = 1
> ndcmfiles = 1
> PE Dir = COL (dicom read)
> TransferSyntaxUID: --1.2.840.10008.1.2--
> jpegUID:           --1.2.840.10008.1.2.4--
> Loading pixel data
> TR=2500.00, TE=30.00, TI=0.00, flip angle=90.00
> i_ras = (-1, 0, 0)
> j_ras = (0, -0.974123, -0.226021)
> k_ras = (nan, nan, nan)
> Reslicing using trilinear interpolation
> MRIresample(): error inverting matrix; determinant is nan, matrix is:
> -3.750   0.000   nan   nan;
>   0.000  -3.653   nan   nan;
>   0.000  -0.848   nan   nan;
>   0.000   0.000   0.000   1.000;
>
> Please suggest the possible reason for the error. Thanks a lot!
>
> Helen
>
>
> On Jul 3, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Bruce Fischl wrote:
>
>> Hi Brianna
>>
>> If the white surface is correct and you can't get watershed/graph cuts to do 
>> any better, it may be that erasing voxels from the brainmask or 
>> brain.finalsurfs is your only option. If you had multi-echo MPRAGE you might 
>> be able to get rid of it also.
>>
>> sorry,
>> Bruce
>> On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Kolody, Brianna wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> We are having problems with some of our pial surfaces extending into the
>>> sagittal sinus. We are interested in cortical thickness around the
>>> precuneus, etc. I attached a couple screen shots to describe. The error is
>>> not repaired by adjusting watershed parameters. How do you suggest we
>>> proceed? Should we erase voxels from brainmask? We are concerned since these
>>> errors extend for a significant number of slices, in many subjects, and
>>> include such a large amount of the sinus.
>>> As a second part to this question, I am unclear on how cortical thickness is
>>> calculated and whether the statistics are directly derived from the visible
>>> surfaces. For instance, when there is an error with the cortical surface
>>> image including the sagittal sinus, it also visibly appears as an error in
>>> aseg and aparc. However, the mistaken area doesn't have an associated region
>>> label in aseg or aparc when we move the cursor over it. Are the cortical
>>> thickness statistics reflected by the parcellation, which possibly does not
>>> include the sinus, or the surfaces, which do seem to include the sinus?
>>> Brianna
>>>
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