Re: [Freesurfer] interpolation during conform step of oblique acquisitions

2011-07-11 Thread Michael Harms

Hi Doug,
Do you have any comment regarding the easiest way to prevent
interpolation of oblique acquisitions at the conform step of the FS
pipeline?

thanks,
-MH

On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 21:21 -0400, Bruce Fischl wrote:
 Hi Mike,
 
 the intent was to be independent of the prescription of the slices so 
 that we could always depend on voxel coordinates having some anatomical 
 meaning, regardless of what crazy slice orientation was prescribed. Not 
 sure if Doug has some easier work around for you to prevent the rotation.
 
 cheers
 Bruce
 
 
 On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Michael Harms wrote:
 
 
  Hi guys,
 
  I'm curious why the conform step of mri_convert (in generating
  mri/orig.mgz) automatically interpolates oblique acquisitions.  Is this
  a historical legacy?  Something mandated by other elements of the FS
  pipeline?  As a consequence of this behavior, if you have an oblique
  acquisition that was intentionally aligned to the actual anatomy of a
  given subject's brain (e.g., using AutoAlign to generate a AC-PC aligned
  acquisition), unless one manually alters the qform in the input NIFTI
  file to remove the oblique components of the xform, there will be an
  interpolation in the generation of the mri/orig.mgz, which brings with
  it blurring (i.e., the same sort of concerns that prompt one to use a
  single MPRAGE, rather than the average of two MPRAGEs)
 
  Just curious...
 
  thanks,
  -MH
 
 
 
 
 
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[Freesurfer] interpolation during conform step of oblique acquisitions

2011-06-16 Thread Michael Harms

Hi guys,

I'm curious why the conform step of mri_convert (in generating
mri/orig.mgz) automatically interpolates oblique acquisitions.  Is this
a historical legacy?  Something mandated by other elements of the FS
pipeline?  As a consequence of this behavior, if you have an oblique
acquisition that was intentionally aligned to the actual anatomy of a
given subject's brain (e.g., using AutoAlign to generate a AC-PC aligned
acquisition), unless one manually alters the qform in the input NIFTI
file to remove the oblique components of the xform, there will be an
interpolation in the generation of the mri/orig.mgz, which brings with
it blurring (i.e., the same sort of concerns that prompt one to use a
single MPRAGE, rather than the average of two MPRAGEs)

Just curious...

thanks,
-MH


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Re: [Freesurfer] interpolation during conform step of oblique acquisitions

2011-06-16 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Mike,

the intent was to be independent of the prescription of the slices so 
that we could always depend on voxel coordinates having some anatomical 
meaning, regardless of what crazy slice orientation was prescribed. Not 
sure if Doug has some easier work around for you to prevent the rotation.

cheers
Bruce


On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Michael Harms wrote:


 Hi guys,

 I'm curious why the conform step of mri_convert (in generating
 mri/orig.mgz) automatically interpolates oblique acquisitions.  Is this
 a historical legacy?  Something mandated by other elements of the FS
 pipeline?  As a consequence of this behavior, if you have an oblique
 acquisition that was intentionally aligned to the actual anatomy of a
 given subject's brain (e.g., using AutoAlign to generate a AC-PC aligned
 acquisition), unless one manually alters the qform in the input NIFTI
 file to remove the oblique components of the xform, there will be an
 interpolation in the generation of the mri/orig.mgz, which brings with
 it blurring (i.e., the same sort of concerns that prompt one to use a
 single MPRAGE, rather than the average of two MPRAGEs)

 Just curious...

 thanks,
 -MH



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