Hi Bruce,
Thank you for your quick reply!
The decrease in percent difference vary. I have listed the range here for
each region:
Left Lateral Ventricle: -26 to -0.06
Left inferior ventricles: -67 to -0.2
Third ventricle: -23 to -0.06
Fourth ventricle: -7 to -0.142
Right lateral ventricle: -21 to -0.04
Right inferior ventricle: -59 to -0.68
I had a chance to examine one brain that showed -16% difference score in
the left lateral ventricles between the longitudinal and baseline scan. The
scans seemed to show a smaller left lateral ventricle at time 2. Do you
know whether the variability of Freesurfer (version 5.1) may contribute to
some of the decreases I am seeing?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Best,
Tamara
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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 21:43:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bruce Fischl <fischl(a)nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Ventricle Volumes Decreasing over time?
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Hi Tamara
have you visualized the multiple time points of a subject whose ventricular
volume is decreasing? How big a decrease are you seeing?
cheers
Bruce
On Tue, 5
Sep 2017, Tamara Tavares wrote:
> Hello,
> I used the default longitudinal stream to calculate ventricular volumes
over time. When I examined
> the difference score (longitudinal-baseline) I noticed that for some
participants ventricular
> volumes decreased. The same site, scanner and scanning protocol was used
for both baseline and
> longitudinal scans. I processed the cross, template and longitudinal time
points on the same
> computer using the same Freesurfer version (v 5.1). Furthermore, this
decrease in ventricular volume
> is evident before and after manual corrects were made to the aseg file.
Is it common to see an
> decrease in ventricular volume over time? Can this be due to Freesurfer
variability or slight
> differences in the scanner over the two time points?
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Best,
> Tamara