Re: [Freesurfer] tracula: bvec-error

2014-09-04 Thread Robby De Pauw
Hi Barbara and FS-community, I tried everything you suggested, but unfortunately the same error still occurs. Have you found a solution yet? Thanks for your help Best regards, Robby Robby De Pauw, drs. Ghent University Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Sciences 3B3 De Pintelaan

Re: [Freesurfer] Vertex space

2014-09-04 Thread lorenzo pasquini
Dear Bruce, thank you very much for the quick reply. The aim of our study is to investigate the correspondence of cortical thickness and measures of functional connectivity (e.g. from ICA) on a vertex-based within-subject level. However, we are not sure how to implement this in freesurfer,

[Freesurfer] Something wrong with fsaverage folder

2014-09-04 Thread Minjeong Wang
Deal all I have some problem with my fsaverage folder. can i re-download this folder?? or do I need to download the whole freesurfer package again? my freesurfer version is ' freesurfer-i386-apple-darwin11.4.2-stable5-20130514'. Thank you. Sincerely Wang

[Freesurfer] Masks based on 10-20 locations of stimulating electrodes

2014-09-04 Thread Tudor Popescu
Dear FS team, I have structural data from a training study involving different tDCS groups. I would like to define ROIs (masks) in MNI space corresponding to the approximate cortical area underlying the tDCS electrodes, which were placed on F3F4 for one group and on P3P4 in another group (10-20

Re: [Freesurfer] Vertex space

2014-09-04 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Lorenzo Doug is the person to answer most of these questions, but yes, you want to sample your raw fMRI data onto the surface, then analyze there so you can take advantage of things like surface-based smoothing. There is no need for an inverse matrix to transform back, just the output of

Re: [Freesurfer] Masks based on 10-20 locations of stimulating electrodes

2014-09-04 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Tudor I guess the easiest thing to do would be to read the surface and the electrode coords into matlab and just do an exhaustive search for the vertex that has the closest MNI coord to each electrode. cheers Bruce On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Tudor Popescu wrote: Dear FS team, I have

Re: [Freesurfer] fieldsign map display

2014-09-04 Thread SHAHIN NASR
Hi, Have you ran fieldsign-sess after your selxavg3-sess? On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Francesca Strappini francescastrapp...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I'm trying to display the fieldsign map. I used standard rotating-wedge and expanding-ring paradigm, and I followed the steps

Re: [Freesurfer] fieldsign map display

2014-09-04 Thread Francesca Strappini
Yes, this was the command line fieldsign-sess -a rtopy.LG.lh -s SUBJ02 -patch lh.full.flat.patch.3d -fwhm 0 Thanks! Francesca 2014-09-04 15:52 GMT+03:00 SHAHIN NASR sha...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu: Hi, Have you ran fieldsign-sess after your selxavg3-sess? On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:35 AM,

[Freesurfer] Job Posting: Assistant Professor of Psychology at the UC-Davis Center for Mind Brain

2014-09-04 Thread Steven J Luck
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Re: [Freesurfer] From bedpostX and recon-all to tracula

2014-09-04 Thread Chris Watson
If you sym link the already finished bedpostx directory to $SUBJECT/dmri.bedpostX, you should be able to run trac-all -prep and trac-all -path without any issues (adjusting the config that comes with tracula) On 09/03/2014 05:04 PM, Katherine Damme wrote: Hello Freesurfer Community! I have

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula - May update version

2014-09-04 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Peggy, 1. All anatomical volumes used in the last update of longitudinal tracula are in the same space as the *.long.* freesurfer volumes, i.e., the within-subject base template. 2. There are no changes to the bedpostx step. 2a. The brain mask should be the same across all steps of

Re: [Freesurfer] tracula: bvec-error

2014-09-04 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Robby - The option to specify a different gradient table for each scan (with bveclist) was introduced more recently. See: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Tracula/#Updates The version that you're using doesn't recognize bveclist. Hope this helps, a.y On Tue, 26 Aug 2014,

[Freesurfer] invalid=96777 in recon-all

2014-09-04 Thread Pom Sailasuta
Hello, I am using FreeSurfer version 5.3.0 in 64bit desktop, I got these errors at the begining of recon-all but the reconstruction is not stop, keep on going with lots of invalid=96777. pass 1 of 1 setting smoothness coefficient to 0.039 blurring

Re: [Freesurfer] FreeSurfer NVIDIA card drivers with CentOS 6.5

2014-09-04 Thread raij
Hi Dan, Thanks. While I agree that all kinds of GPUs might be sufficient as far as the hardware and FS computations go, the drivers in fact make a major difference for visualizations. For my card the proprietary NVIDIA drivers turned out to be 10-20 times faster than the CentOS 6.5 Noveau

Re: [Freesurfer] invalid=96777 in recon-all

2014-09-04 Thread Z K
That is expected output, No need to worry about it. -Zeke On 09/04/2014 04:06 PM, Pom Sailasuta wrote: Hello, I am using FreeSurfer version 5.3.0 in 64bit desktop, I got these errors at the begining of recon-all but the reconstruction is not stop, keep on going with lots of invalid=96777.

Re: [Freesurfer] trac-all -prep error field map error

2014-09-04 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Eileen - In b0plist you can give files that contain either 2 phase maps (a volume with 2 frames), or the difference of 2 phase maps (a volume with only 1 frame). Depending on whether the volume that you specified has 2 or 1 frame, trac-all will assume which of the above you're giving it.

Re: [Freesurfer] FreeSurfer NVIDIA card drivers with CentOS 6.5

2014-09-04 Thread dgw
Hi Tommi, That is true, but it is also the most extreme comparison possible. A crude estimate of the ranking of drivers would be: NVIDIA Intel (these are open source by default) AMD radeon (open source amd) Nouveau (open source nvidia) While both NVIDIA and AMD hardware are of similar speed

Re: [Freesurfer] watershed surface to volume rendering repost

2014-09-04 Thread dgw
Hi Matt, Did you try the -c option described in the function's help? HTH D On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Sherwood, Matt matt.sherw...@wright.edu wrote: Bruce, Thanks for the pointer. What is happening is we would like to combine the skin/skull/CSF volumes with that of the cortical

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-04 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Michelle - Your column-formatted gradient table (original_columns.bvec) shows up as having only 2 rows in unix (e.g. with the cat command). That's sometimes the case for text files saved from Excel or other non-unix applications. When I open your file in TextEdit on a mac and then

Re: [Freesurfer] tracula: bvec-error

2014-09-04 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Barbara - If your version is the same as Robby's, then you're trying to use an option (different gradient table for each scan) that was added in a tracula update. Older versions only allowed a single gradient table for all scans. See:

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-04 Thread Michele Cavallari
Hi Barbara and Anastasia, thanks to your suggestions and help I was able to run the pre-processing step of tracula. I was using FreeSurfer 5.3, but didn't download any update. That's probably why the row configuration was not working. Anyway, I used the column configuration after manual correction

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-04 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Michelle - Based on your recon-all.log, your SUBJECTS_DIR that contains the freesurfer recon of your subject is /PHShome/my738/FSout. But based on you trac-all.log, you're using: SUBJECTS_DIR /Users/michele/Desktop/tracula/sages_diff_test_tracula So tracula cannot find the freesurfer

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-04 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Michelle - Try replacing this line: setenv /Users/michele/Desktop/tracula/sages_diff_test_tracula/SD40_1/FSout_P0401_e20130813_s002_Cor7minMDEFT_T1_b with: setenv SUBJECTS_DIR /PHShome/my738/FSout (Or whatever the location of your freesurfer recons is.) a.y On Wed, 3 Sep 2014,

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula

2014-09-04 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Emily - Is your amygdala seed ROI in MNI space? Only in that case the seed-to-diffusion transformation would be the MNI-to-diffusion transformation. a.y On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Emily Louise Belleau wrote: Hello, I did all of my DTI preprocessing through tracula. I now am using FSL

Re: [Freesurfer] From bedpostX and recon-all to tracula

2014-09-04 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Kate - There is an example configuration file for tracula in your freesurfer distribution ($FREESURFER_HOME/bin/dmrirc.example). The same file is also here: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/dmrirc If you attach your configuration file and the log file (scripts/trac-all.log), we can

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-04 Thread Michele Cavallari
Thanks Anastasia. I figured out the right path, and I'm now running the 2nd step of tracula pipeline on that case. There was a problem with subdirectories (my fault). And also the missing 'SUBJECTS_DIR' syntax in the setenv command, as both you and Barbara pointed out. Thanks again for your help

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula

2014-09-04 Thread Emily Louise Belleau
Hi Anastasia, Yes my amygdala seed is in MNI space. When I used the MNI to diffusion.mat file in the dmri folder and placed it into FSL's probtractx, I developed a track that was in the wrong area of the brain, so I am thinking there is something wrong happening with the transformation to

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula

2014-09-04 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Certainly you can, and it's a good idea for troubleshooting this. In FSL you can do it with: flirt -in your_label_in_MNI_space.nii.gz -out your_label_in_diff_space.nii.gz -ref dmri/lowb.nii.gz -applyxfm -init dmri/xfms/mni2diff.bbr.mat -interp nearestneighbour Then you can overlay the

Re: [Freesurfer] invalid=96777 in recon-all

2014-09-04 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Pom how long has it run? What you are seeing is probably normal. Let it run to completion and see how things look cheers Bruce On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Pom Sailasuta wrote: Hello, I am using FreeSurfer version 5.3.0  in 64bit desktop, I got these errors at the begining of recon-all but

[Freesurfer] longitudinal QDEC help

2014-09-04 Thread Taylor North
Hello, I am having some troubles using QDEC to analyze the cortical thickness changes in my group study and I was hoping someone may be able to give me a hand. The steps I have done are as follows: I am working on a study looking at 40 subjects scanned at two time points (base and 6

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-04 Thread lshih
Hi, I was having similar errors as Michele Cavallari regarding error reading /path/to/subject/dmri/dwi_frame, but I'm not sure it's related to my bvecs file. I did try reconfiguring my bvecs file into columns instead of row just in case, but that didn't solve the problem. It really just looks

[Freesurfer] recon-all input

2014-09-04 Thread Xinfa Shi
Hello, Now I have a subject data,including 156 dicom images(MR0001~MR0156),amd they were converted into a .nii.gz file(eg.CON_T1_01.nii.gz) .I am wondering whether they are the same : recon-all -i MR1.dcm -s con01 -all recon-all -i CON_T1_01.nii.gz -s con01 -all Many Regards. Xin-Fa Shi.

Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all input

2014-09-04 Thread Bruce Fischl
Yes, it should be Bruce On Sep 4, 2014, at 10:24 PM, Xinfa Shi shixinfa2014...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Now I have a subject data,including 156 dicom images(MR0001~MR0156),amd they were converted into a .nii.gz file(eg.CON_T1_01.nii.gz) .I am wondering whether they are the same :

Re: [Freesurfer] longitudinal QDEC help

2014-09-04 Thread Martin Reuter
Hi Taylor, first, in your description you mention 'base and 6 month'. Better call it 'baseline' or 'first and second time points at 0 and 6 months' in order to not confuse the first time point with the 'base' = within-subject template created as the second step. I think you did not confuse it,

Re: [Freesurfer] longitudinal QDEC help

2014-09-04 Thread Taylor North
Hi Martin Yes I that definitely clears things up, thanks very much for the help. As for the QCAHCE we did use the long_mris_slopes described in the tutorial you linked in your email. Just to confirm I believe I should be using the mri_glmfit -osgm model for my one sample group mean

Re: [Freesurfer] problems with tracula pre-processing (bvecs)

2014-09-04 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Ludy - If your gradient table is formatted in 3 rows you need to either: 1. Convert it to 3 columns so you can use it with the 5.3 version of tracula, which requires the gradient table to be formatted in columns OR 2. Download the tracula update that can use gradient tables formatted in

Re: [Freesurfer] longitudinal QDEC help

2014-09-04 Thread Martin Reuter
Hi Taylor, You can do the glmfit osgm on whatever you like (rate, percentchange pc1, or symm. percent change spc). I recommend SPC. The 2stage model page shows an example of glmfit with osgm flag and explains how to stack your data first.  Best Martin Sent via my smartphone, please excuse