[Freesurfer] tkregister2: target vs. movable designation

2007-11-13 Thread Michael Harms
Hello, I've become confused about the direction of the transformation specified in the talairach.xfm file. It seems that if you manually specify the --targ and --mov volumes in conjunction with the --xfm option, that the target must be the talairach average to get proper alignment: e.g.,

Re: [Freesurfer] tkregister2: target vs. movable designation

2007-11-13 Thread Doug Greve
Yes, it is quite confusing, and like most confusing things it is historical in nature. When tkregister was originally written by Anders/Marty, they set it up to map from the targ RAS to the mov RAS. From an internal standpoint, it makes sense, but it is backards when you think about moveable