Hi Ben,
There should be a procsurffast flag called -volproj_lowmem which avoids 
this mri_vol2vol memory issue.
-Louis

On Wed, 21 May 2014, Douglas N Greve wrote:

>
> mri_vol2vol when used in this way does not manage memory very well. It
> resamples the time series into a 256^3 volume of floats. Even for a
> small number of time points, this becomes unmanagebly huge
>
>
>
>
> On 05/21/2014 06:06 PM, Ben Mooneyham wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am doing pre-processing for resting-state fMRI volumes, but I have
>> encountered an error and am unsure of how to correct it:
>>
>> I have previously determined the nonlinear warping transformations
>> from my subjects' anatomical (T1) space to the 2mm MNI template using
>> ANTs. At the end of my pre-processing pipeline, I am trying to
>> transform my subjects' functional volumes (206 TRs of 2sec) into this
>> MNI space by 1) transforming the functional volumes into subject T1
>> space using mri_vol2vol, and 2) applying the nonlinear warp (from
>> ANTs) to the volumes in subject-T1 space to ultimately have my
>> subjects' functional data in MNI space.
>>
>> However, I am getting an error while running mri_vol2vol, where it
>> "cannot allocate region."  I gather from looking around online that
>> this is a memory issue, but I am not sure how to fix it. Thoughts? It
>> is crucial that I be able to translate my functional data into common
>> MNI space before performing second-level analyses...
>>
>> I do not encounter this issue when performing this transformation on
>> functional connectivity maps (where I take an ROI defined in MNI
>> space, transform it into T1, and then subject-EPI space, calculate the
>> FC with the rest of the brain, and then invert the process by
>> transforming back into T1, and finally MNI space).  How can I get this
>> to work with a larger file?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for your help,
>>
>> Ben Mooneyham
>>
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