Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal analysis of multiple scanner acquisitions

2018-07-04 Thread Martin Reuter
Hi Kody, scanner effects across vendor could be larger than disease effects. You can attempt an analysis but you will have a tough time to publish it given these differences and no real way to control for scanner effects. Maybe scan 5-10 people on all these scanners and show that scanner

Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal analysis of multiple scanner acquisitions

2018-06-18 Thread Alan Francis
External Email - Use Caution Hi Kody - In my view, its best not to do group comparisons using data from scanners of different field strengths. Even between scanners of same magnetic field strength (e,g., 3T Siemens and 3T GE), there are large variations that need to be covaried

[Freesurfer] Longitudinal analysis of multiple scanner acquisitions

2018-06-07 Thread zalewk
External Email - Use Caution Good afternoon Freesurfer team, I want to run the longitudinal pipeline on multiple groups of subjects, the problem is we are at the mercy of the scanners available to us at the various time-points. We have two different Siemens 1.5 scanners (same