Hello fellow Freesurfers!
We are at the startup of a new project, and we have some concerns about
the quality of our scans. There seems to be white/grey contrast problems.
In the original scan (001_mgz.png) and T1 the contrasts are quite clear,
but in brainmask the contrasts are almost completely gone, mainly in the
superior region. We are concerned this might lead to underestimated
cortical thickness, and probably a bunch of other problems as well.
Can somebody tell me if there is a problem with our scans, so we can
change this while still at the start of the project?
Are there any freesurfer commands I should try, maybe options for normalize?
Regards
Inge Amlien
University of Oslo
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Freesurfer 3.01
Scan info from nICE:
Manufacure's model name (0008,1090): Symphony
Scanning sequenece (0018,0020): IR\GR
Scanning variant (0018,0021): SP\MP
Scan options (0018,0022): IR
Acquisition type (0018,0023): 3D
Scan (Sequence) Name (0018,0024): *tfl3d1
Protocol Name (0018,1030): t1_3d_mpr_sag
Repetition time, TR (ms)(0018,0080): 2730.0
Echo time, TE (ms) (0018,0081): 3.2
Inversion time, TI (ms) (0018,0082): 1100.000
Flip angle (deg) (0018,1314): 15
Pixel spacing X (mm) (0028,0030): 0.5000
Pixel spacing Y (mm) (0028,0030): 0.5000
Slice thickness (mm) (0018,0050): 1.3300
Slice spacing or gap (mm) (0018,0088): 0.0000
FoV (freq*phase, mm): 256.0000 * 256.0000
Rect. FoV percentage: 100.0
No of PE steps (0018,0089): 192
Turbo Factor (ETL) (0018,0091): 1
Scan Percentage (0018,0093): 75.0
Pixel Bandwidth (Hz) (0018,0095): 190.0
Number of averages (0018,0083): 1
Recon resolution (Rows) (0028,0010): 512
Recon resolution (Columns) (0028,0011): 512
Image matrix size (X * Y pixels): 512 * 512
Scan number (0020,0012): 1
Image (instance) number (0020,0013): 128
Series number (0020,0011): 2