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Hello FreeSurfer Developers,

 

I'm attempting to resample beta weights generated from AFNI’s 3dDeconvolve command to individual subjects’ cortical surfaces. Prior to running 3dDeconvolve, I ran bbregister to coregister subjects’ (unwarped) functional data to their T1 anatomical scans and to generate a registration file to be used in the mri_vol2surf command.

 

However, I get the following warning when I run the mri_vol2surf command:

 

WARNING: the voxel resolution in the source volume (3.75, 3.75, 3.75) differs from that listed in the registration file (3.75, 3.75, 5)

 

I've searched the list and came across a potentially similar case from Apr. 26, 2011 (SUBJECT: (no subject), AUTHOR: Kevin Bickart), which included the following advice:

 

Hi Kevin, you can ignore that warning. The values in the registration

file are not correct.

 

doug

 

I thought I would reach out to inquire as to whether this is still the case (i.e., that this warning can be ignored) or if it might be a more serious issue? I will add that mri_vol2surf did appear to run successfully (i.e., it did not error out) and provided a .mgh file as output.

 

In case it is helpful, as a next step I plan to convert the .mgh file to an ASCII file to extract the time series. Ultimately, I plan to run graph analyses on the time series data.

 

Any feedback you have would be greatly appreciated.

 

Rachel

 

1) FreeSurfer version: freesurfer_6.0_x86_64

2) Platform: OSX High Sierra

 

Here is my command:

mri_vol2surf --mov ../betaEPI/ Betas_EPIpreproc.nii --srcreg ../bbregistration.dat --hemi lh --projfrac 0.5 --o ./lh.1.mgh

 

mris_convert -c ./lh.1.mgh $parc_dir/${1}/surf/lh.white ../lh_ascii/lh.1.asc

 

 

And the full output:

srcvol = ../betaEPI/Betas_EPIpreproc.nii

srcreg = ../bbregistration.dat

srcregold = 0

srcwarp unspecified

surf = white

hemi = lh

ProjFrac = 0.5

thickness = thickness

reshape = 0

interp = nearest

float2int = round

GetProjMax = 0

INFO: float2int code = 0

Done loading volume

INFO: This REGISTER_DAT transform is valid only for volumes between  COR types with c_(r,a,s) = 0.

Input reg is register.dat

WARNING: the voxel resolution in the source volume (3.75,3.75,3.75) differs

         from that listed in the registration file (3.75,3.75,5)

-------- original matrix -----------

 0.99988  -0.00997   0.01155  -0.43638;

-0.01472  -0.43023   0.90260   22.14351;

 0.00403   0.90266   0.43033   34.58801;

 0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   1.00000;

-------- original matrix -----------

Reading surface /Volumes/Vol3/Hamilton/preproc/Parcelled//003/surf/lh.white

Done reading source surface

Reading thickness /Volumes/Vol3/Hamilton/preproc/Parcelled//003/surf/lh.thickness

Done

Mapping Source Volume onto Source Subject Surface

 1 0.5 0.5 0.5

using old

Done mapping volume to surface

Number of source voxels hit = 8657

Writing to ./lh.1.mgh

Dim: 146930 1 1

srcvol = ../betaEPI/Betas_EPIpreproc.nii

srcreg = ../bbregistration.dat

srcregold = 0

srcwarp unspecified

surf = white

hemi = rh

ProjFrac = 0.5

thickness = thickness

reshape = 0

interp = nearest

float2int = round

GetProjMax = 0

INFO: float2int code = 0

Done loading volume

INFO: This REGISTER_DAT transform is valid only for volumes between  COR types with c_(r,a,s) = 0.

Input reg is register.dat

WARNING: the voxel resolution in the source volume (3.75,3.75,3.75) differs

         from that listed in the registration file (3.75,3.75,5)

-------- original matrix -----------

 0.99988  -0.00997   0.01155  -0.43638;

-0.01472  -0.43023   0.90260   22.14351;

 0.00403   0.90266   0.43033   34.58801;

 0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   1.00000;

-------- original matrix -----------

Reading surface /Volumes/Vol3/Hamilton/preproc/Parcelled//003/surf/rh.white

Done reading source surface

Reading thickness /Volumes/Vol3/Hamilton/preproc/Parcelled//003/surf/rh.thickness

Done

Mapping Source Volume onto Source Subject Surface

 1 0.5 0.5 0.5

using old

Done mapping volume to surface

Number of source voxels hit = 8681

Writing to ./rh.1.mgh

Dim: 148618 1 1