Hi all,
I have been trying to process an image, and the reconstruction has
been consistently freezing at the same spot. This brain failed the
tailarach transform, but I checked it and it looked fine, so I used
the -notal-check flag. I have had this happen with several other
brains, and there was no problem using this flag until now. I have
tried it on 2 different computers where we have FreeSurfer, and it
still freezes at the exact same place. I left it overnight to be
sure it was really frozen, and the next morning the reconstruction
script had not progressed. There is no error message. The place
where it freezes is mri_ca_normalize, and I have pasted the script below:
#@# CA Normalize Thu Jul 2 18:31:14 EDT 2009
/home/dwm2003/NPH/FS/NPH3/mri
mri_ca_normalize -mask brainmask.mgz nu.mgz
/usr/local/freesurfer/average/RB_all_2008-03-26.gca
transforms/talairach.lta norm.mgz
using MR volume brainmask.mgz to mask input volume...
reading 1 input volumes
reading atlas from '/usr/local/freesurfer/average/RB_all_2008-03-26.gca'...
reading transform from 'transforms/talairach.lta'...
reading input volume from nu.mgz...
resetting wm mean[0]: 102 --> 107
resetting gm mean[0]: 64 --> 64
input volume #1 is the most T1-like
using real data threshold=17.0
skull bounding box = (56, 38, 29) --> (205, 184, 175)
using (106, 87, 102) as brain centroid...
mean wm in atlas = 107, using box (88,69,84) --> (124, 104,119) to find MRI wm
before smoothing, mri peak at 88
after smoothing, mri peak at 87, scaling input intensities by 1.230
scaling channel 0 by 1.22989
using 244171 sample points...
INFO: compute sample coordinates transform
0.926 -0.053 0.111 2.200;
0.005 0.987 0.482 -32.821;
-0.126 -0.444 0.940 78.347;
0.000 0.000 0.000 1.000;
INFO: transform used
finding control points in Left_Cerebral_White_Matter....
found 41584 control points for structure...
bounding box (124, 43, 29) --> (200, 162, 179)
Left_Cerebral_White_Matter: limiting intensities to 93.0 --> 110.0
115 of 354 (32.5%) samples deleted
finding control points in Right_Cerebral_White_Matter....
found 40735 control points for structure...
bounding box (58, 45, 28) --> (131, 156, 177)
This is always where the script stops when the process seems to
freeze. (I have tried 3 times with the same result). Any ideas?
Thanks,
Dana
Dana W. Moore, Ph.D.
Neuropsychology Fellow
Cornell Neuropsychology Service
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Department of Neurology & Neuroscience
428 East 72nd Street, Suite 500
New York, NY 10021
Phone: 212-746-2441
Fax: 212-746-5584
Email: dwm2003(a)med.cornell.edu