The problem is in your dicom files. They are missing Image Orientation (0020,0037) attribute, which specifies the direction cosines of the first row and the first column with respect to the patient. I believe you need to check how the image was scanned/saved at the scanner.

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Thank you for your quick response. Please,  can you kindly assist me with freesurfer input image template for sT1-weighted? How do I solve this orientation problem?

Thank you. 

On Fri, 6 Jan 2023, 14:34 Huang, Yujing, <YHUANG43@mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:

It looks like there is a problem with your input dicom file - image orientation tag is missing.

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Dear FreeSurfer experts, 

I am a first time  FreeSurfer user trying to run a recon-all for a sT1_W image. However, recon-all terminates with an error "tag image orientation not found" I need help on how to resolve this.

Kindly find the recon-all.log file.

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