also, check out this web page
http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/CoordinateSystems


On 08/05/2018 11:23 AM, Bruce Fischl wrote:
> Hi Ritesh
>
> you can use the vox2ras matrix to compute the RAS coordinates of any 
> voxel. Just give it column,row,slice,1 indices as the input vector.
>
> cheers
> Bruce
> On Sun, 5 Aug 2018, Ritesh Mahajan wrote:
>
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>> Thanks Bruce.
>>
>> Thanks Doug for clearing this. Can you please tell, how can i get 
>> back the first voxel of  input ?
>> Also, can you tell what mathematical formula or equation is used 
>> convert this origin ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ritesh Mahajan
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Douglas Greve" <dgr...@mgh.harvard.edu>
>> To: "freesurfer" <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
>> Sent: Friday, August 3, 2018 9:51:30 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Origin of freesusrfer output
>>
>> To add on, the origin is changed in that the "first voxel" is not the
>> same in the 256^3 volume as it is in the original dicom. Having said
>> that, all our files (eg, mgz and nifti) have a  matrix that converts a
>> col, row, slice into the scanner RAS, so you can always find your way
>> back to the dicom coordinates.
>>
>> On 8/3/18 10:41 AM, Bruce Fischl wrote:
>>> Hi Ritesh
>>>
>>> Doug can correct any inaccuracies, but....
>>>
>>> 1. Yes, unless you tell recon-all not to.
>>> 2. I'm not sure what you mean by the origin, but we do keep track of
>>> the ras coordinates of the center of the volume after resampling 
>>> (the so-called "cras").
>>> 3. We do keep track of the original dicom coordinates.
>>> 4. mri_info will spit out various matrices, among them the voxel to ras
>>> transform that should take you back to scanner ras coordinates.
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> Bruce
>>>
>>> On Fri, 3 Aug 2018, Ritesh
>>> Mahajan wrote:
>>>
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>>>> Hi Bruce,
>>>>
>>>> 1) Free-surfer output is always 256*256*256, regardless of any 
>>>> input dimensions.
>>>> 2) I have a doubt, while doing this re-sampling from input 
>>>> dimension to 256*256*256. Does free-surfer change the origin of image?
>>>> 3) My input is an MRI dicom image, for dicom tag value (0020,0032) 
>>>> which gives me the image position(origin).
>>>> 4) How can i know the origin of free-surfer output in nii format? 
>>>> Do free-surfer change this value during processing?
>>>>
>>>> Can you please provide your valuable comments on this.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ritesh Mahajan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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