Dear fellow Surfers,
I am trying to overlay
FreeSurfer 5.1 MNI305 (=fsaverage) aparc+aseg.mgz 3D volumes (caudate,
putamen, pallidum, etc)
onto
FSL MNI152 2mm resolution volume.
I first extract the nuclei from MNI305 aparc+aseg.mgz, for example:
mri_extract_label $FREESURFER_HOME/subjects/fsaverage/mri/aparc+aseg.mgz
11 MNI305_3D_masks/mask_lh_caudate.nii
I then try to resample the extracted volume into FSL MNI152 2mm space,
using the registration that comes with FS 5.1 (.dat format):
mri_vol2vol --mov MNI305_3D_masks/mask_lh_caudate.nii --targ
$FSLDIR/data/standard/MNI152_T1_2mm_brain.nii.gz --reg
$FREESURFER_HOME/average/mni152.register.dat --o
MNI152_3D_masks/mask_lh_caudate.nii
Unfortunately, caudate appears in a clearly incorrect location, both when
checking the result with tkmedit2, and when viewing the volumes with
freeview. Adding --inv does not fix this either.
However, if I simply overlay the volume extracted from MNI305 aparc+aseg
on the FSL MNI152 2 mm volume, the location looks just fine. It therefore
appears that MNI305 and MNI152 are in the same space, and mri_vol2vol is
not needed. Is this correct? Or am I just using an incorrect register.dat
file?
Thanks!
Tommi
Details:
On machine ernie
nmr-std-env (5.1.0 stable)
$FSLDIR = /usr/pubsw/packages/fsl/current/
$FREESURFER_HOME = /usr/local/freesurfer/stable5_1_0/
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Tommi Raij, MD, PhD
TMS Core Director
MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Bldg 149, 13th St
Charlestown, MA 02129
U.S.A.