Hello all

I am still having some trouble getting started on preprocessing of my ASL data.  Steve Smith has suggested that I do sub-TR timing-adjustment before a subtraction analysis in FEAT.  I wonder if anyone in the Martinos center has expertise with this kind of analysis.  If possible, I'd like to stop by the Martinos center for a short tutorial in preprocessing ASL data.  If anyone there can help me with this, please let me know.  I don't think it should take too long (30 min or less), and it would really help me out, as I am quite new to all of this software.

Thanks
Abi

On 11/27/06, Steve Smith <steve@fmrib.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
Indeed - you don't just want to do pairwise subtraction Abi, it's
better to do sub-TR timing-adjustment on the tagged and control data
before subtraction - if you look in the latest version of FEAT in FSL
you'll see options for easy preprocessing of ASL data. You would then
be able to use the normal methods for transferring FEAT data into
FreeSurferSpace.

Cheers, Steve.



On 27 Nov 2006, at 17:47, Doug Greve wrote:

>
> We don't have an MC program. You can try running FSL's FLIRT or AFNI's
> 3dvolreg. As for analysis, you should be able run
>
> mri_concat --paired-diff --mean inputaslvolume outputvolume
>
> I've never actually tried it like this, but it should work.
>
> doug
>
>
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Abi Gopal wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I have collected some raw Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL) data.  I
>> would like
>> to use freesurfer to create perfusion maps of this data.  Is it
>> possible to
>> take the raw data, motion correct it, perform a pairwise
>> subtraction, and
>> then average all the subtractions to create a mean perfusion map?
>> Please
>> let me know if you have ideas on how to do this sort of thing.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Abi
>>
>>
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