Re: [Freesurfer] stripping MP-RAGEs from Allegra

2006-07-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
you mean the coefficients from Siemens? Actually Jenni has had a lot of recent experience messing around with Allegra data. If you want to put one on the file drop we'll take a look (do they look okay?) Bruce On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Russell Poldrack wrote: not yet - we are working on getting t

Re: [Freesurfer] stripping MP-RAGEs from Allegra

2006-07-10 Thread Russell Poldrack
not yet - we are working on getting the coordinates on this end to do that, so we should hopefully be able to do so fairly soon.cheersrpOn Jul 10, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote:Hi Russ,are you gradient unwarping them?BruceOn Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Russell Poldrack wrote: hi - I've been trying to

Re: [Freesurfer] stripping MP-RAGEs from Allegra

2006-07-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Russ, are you gradient unwarping them? Bruce On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Russell Poldrack wrote: hi - I've been trying to run a set of MP-RAGE images collected on our allegra through the first part of the autorecon process, and I've run into somewhat of a problem with the skull-stripping. In all

[Freesurfer] stripping MP-RAGEs from Allegra

2006-07-10 Thread Russell Poldrack
hi - I've been trying to run a set of MP-RAGE images collected on our allegra through the first part of the autorecon process, and I've run into somewhat of a problem with the skull-stripping. In all 8 of the brains that I have tried, there is a substantial amount of scalp left over after stripping

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_normalize

2006-07-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
check the talairach transform and see if it's reasonable. If it is, feel free to put the nu.mgz on our drop site (with the talairach.xfm) and I'll take a look. cheers, Bruce On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Don Hagler wrote: I am getting an error running mri_normalize (as part of recon-all) on a particul

[Freesurfer] mri_normalize

2006-07-10 Thread Don Hagler
I am getting an error running mri_normalize (as part of recon-all) on a particular subject's volume. Here is the command from recon-all: mri_normalize -g 1 nu.mgz T1.mgz Here is the output: WM removal version using max gradient = 1.000 reading from nu.mgz... normalizing image... talairach trans

Re: [Freesurfer] details on subcortical segmentation

2006-07-10 Thread Nick Schmansky
Sasha, These and other papers are available in PDF format in the references section at the bottom of this page: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki Nick On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 17:23 -0400, Bruce Fischl wrote: > yes: > > > > if you use surface recons > > > > Fischl B, Salat DH, van der

Re: [Freesurfer] details on subcortical segmentation

2006-07-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
oops, ignore the "if you use surface recons" part of this On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Bruce Fischl wrote: yes: if you use surface recons Fischl B, Salat DH, van der Kouwe AJW, Makris N, Ségonne F, Dale AM. Sequence-Independent Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Images. NeuroImage 23 Suppl

Re: [Freesurfer] details on subcortical segmentation

2006-07-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
yes: if you use surface recons Fischl B, Salat DH, van der Kouwe AJW, Makris N, Ségonne F, Dale AM. Sequence-Independent Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Images. NeuroImage 23 Suppl 1, S69-84. Fischl B, Salat D, Busa E, Albert M, Dieterich M, Haselgrove C, van der Kouwe A, Killiany R, Ke

[Freesurfer] details on subcortical segmentation

2006-07-10 Thread Sasha Wolosin
Dear all, I am interested in learning more about the details of subcortical segmentation, in particular how the basal ganglia structure boundaries are determined. Is there any literature I may refer to? Thanks, Sasha Disclaimer: The materials in this e-mail are private and may contain Protec

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical gray matter volume

2006-07-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
the aseg will be different, since it's voxel-based (and typically not as accurate as the surfaces) On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this true of the aseg files as well? I tried *double-checking* the mris_anatomical_stats by using the aseg file in MatLab (assigning values to the

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical gray matter volume

2006-07-10 Thread Doug Greve
Yes, it is true for both (and the aparc+aseg.mgz). This puzzled me when I first wrote mri_aparc2aseg (which creates the aparc+aseg.mgz file). [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this true of the aseg files as well? I tried *double-checking* the mris_anatomical_stats by using the aseg file in MatL

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical gray matter volume

2006-07-10 Thread derin
Is this true of the aseg files as well? I tried *double-checking* the mris_anatomical_stats by using the aseg file in MatLab (assigning values to the voxel-intensities, counting them up, etc, etc) and the numbers came up different. Is that why? Probably not the best method now that I think about

RE: [Freesurfer] old_freesurfer question

2006-07-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
actually it's the total gray matter volume (sum of thickness*surface area) On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Bagnato, Francesca (NIH/NINDS) [E] wrote: I just mean to ask if such a mean take into account the different surfaces area and correct for that (e.g. geometric mean). Thanks Francesca -Original M

RE: [Freesurfer] old_freesurfer question

2006-07-10 Thread Bagnato, Francesca (NIH/NINDS) [E]
I just mean to ask if such a mean take into account the different surfaces area and correct for that (e.g. geometric mean). Thanks Francesca -Original Message- From: Bruce Fischl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 2:04 PM To: Bagnato, Francesca (NIH/NINDS) [E] Cc: Pelle

RE: [Freesurfer] old_freesurfer question

2006-07-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
not sure I understand what you mean. It is the mean across the surface. As such it will be corrupted by non-cortical regions such as the callosum, although they are only a small % of the surface. If you want to get rid of them you can draw a cortical label and pass it to mris_anatomical_stats w

RE: [Freesurfer] old_freesurfer question

2006-07-10 Thread Bagnato, Francesca (NIH/NINDS) [E]
Bruce: is this an average weighted on the surface of the cortices or just a pure arithmetic mean? Thanks, Francesca -Original Message- From: Bruce Fischl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 1:50 PM To: Pellegrini, Stefano (NIH/NINDS) [F] Cc: freesurfer Subject: Re: [Free

[Freesurfer] old_freesurfer question

2006-07-10 Thread Stefano Pellegrini
Hi everybody, I have a small problem with an old version of freesurfer. I am studing some data that someone analyzed some months ago using the old version of freesurfer. I am looking for the mean cortical thickness of each hemisphere, but I have found only the thickness af each single area of

Re: [Freesurfer] old_freesurfer question

2006-07-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
do you mean the mean across the entire cortex? If so, mris_anatomical_stats will give you that. On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Stefano Pellegrini wrote: Hi everybody, I have a small problem with an old version of freesurfer. I am studing some data that someone analyzed some months ago using the old v

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical gray matter volume

2006-07-10 Thread Doug Greve
It is only cortical. And you don't want to use ?h.ribbon.mgz as this is quantized to 1mm^3 and will be less accurate than mris_anatomical stats. doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am attempting to assess (& compare) total cortical gray matter volume in a series of subjects (schiz vs.

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical gray matter volume

2006-07-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Derin, mris_anatomical_status gives you only cortical gray matter. cheers, Bruce On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am attempting to assess (& compare) total cortical gray matter volume in a series of subjects (schiz vs. control), and was wondering if the tabular mris_an

[Freesurfer] Cortical gray matter volume

2006-07-10 Thread derin
Hi, I am attempting to assess (& compare) total cortical gray matter volume in a series of subjects (schiz vs. control), and was wondering if the tabular mris_anatomical_stats gm output consisted of only cortical gm, or included subcortical and other nuclei as well. I've searched the wiki, articl

Re: [Freesurfer] vertices for mri_label2label using volume registration

2006-07-10 Thread Doug Greve
I guess you could compute the cog in native coords, then convert those coords to tal (would probably be the same thing as starting in tal). Having said that, I don't have anything which will compute the cog along the surface. The right way to do it is to map the label to the sphere, compute th

[Freesurfer] trouble using inorm-sess

2006-07-10 Thread Sebastian Moeller
Hi List, we have some problems with inorm-sess and some data sets. No matter how we set -tresh (well, 0.1, 0.5, 0.75 or 1.0) some of our functional runs produce errors/warnings. (and the "INFO: no voxels found under thershold" messages, but they look benign). The warning are mostly divides by