I think the first thing you should do is visualize your input in tkmedit to make sure it is oriented correctly. FreeSurfer and AFNI  may be making different assumptions about the data.

doug

Nick Schmansky wrote:
Anil,

See this tutorial:

  https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/Talairach

Also, a tool to appear in the next release, which checks the
talairach.xfm against a known set of proper alignments, indicates that
this alignment is bad.  You probably will need to manually align.

Nick

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 20:46 -0500, Bruce Fischl wrote:
  
you need to visualize it in tkmedit. Use file -> load transform for main 
volume and see if it looks reasonable (should be slightly looking down, 
and pretty vertical so for example the interhemispheric fissure goes 
straight up and down in a coronal view
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Anil Roy wrote:

    
I've attached the talairach.xfm to this email. I'm a newbie to MRI analysis
so I don't know what exactly would be a red flag in this file. Please do
tell me if you see something odd.

Anil.

On 2/8/07, Bruce Fischl <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
      
did you check the talairach.xfm?
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Anil Roy wrote:

        
Hi All,

I installed the new build and Freesurfer still quits at the same place.
          
I've
        
attached the recon-all.log file to this email. Its still giving an error
          
at
        
the watershed step.

Anil.

On 2/8/07, Anil Roy <aroy85@gmail.com> wrote:
          
I'll install the CentOS build and run the brain again.

Anil.

On 2/8/07, Anil Roy <aroy85@gmail.com> wrote:
            
Yes. When I convert to BRIK and open with AFNI, the images show up
              
fine
        
in all three planes.

There is some noise towards the very end but it only shows up after
              
the
        
slices with no brain tissue (or any that I can see).

Anil.

On 2/8/07, Bruce Fischl < fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
              
if you convert it to BRIK and visualize it does it look correct?
On Thu, 8
Feb 2007, Anil Roy wrote:

                
Hello all,

I have some raw data and I'm not sure of the format. Its
                  
definitely
        
not
                
dicom. I ran recon-all on these files but I get an error saying
                  
it
        
can't
                
read the files. I have posted the output below. I tried to
                  
convert
        
the files
                
to afni format (BRIK + HEAD), and tried recon-all again. It ran
                  
for
        
a while
                
but gave an error that I've attached to a text file.

Can someone please tell me how I can get Freesurfer to read these
                  
files. I
                
can also upload the raw files if you'd like to take a look at
                  
them.
        
Thanks a lot - Anil.

[root@dhcp-129-105-146-127 freesurfer]# recon-all -force -i
/root/U_Chicago/Tone_Acquisition/Nl-TA1-001/I.001 -subjid
                  
Nl-TA1-001
        
-sd
                
/root/Freesurfer/Tone_Acquisition -all
INFO: SUBJECTS_DIR is /root/Freesurfer/Tone_Acquisition
INFO: /root/Freesurfer/Tone_Acquisition/Nl-TA1-001 exists with
                  
-i,
        
but
                
-force specified.
Deleting any previous source volumes
Actual FREESURFER_HOME /usr/local/freesurfer
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 76880 Feb  8 13:25
/root/Freesurfer/Tone_Acquisition/Nl-TA1-001/scripts/recon-
                  
all.log
        
Linux dhcp-129-105-146-127.speech.northwestern.edu
                  
2.6.17-1.2157_FC5smp #1
                
SMP Tue Jul 11 23:24:16 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
strings: Command not found.
WM removal version
/root/Freesurfer/Tone_Acquisition/Nl-TA1-001

mri_convert /root/U_Chicago/Tone_Acquisition/Nl-TA1-001/I.001
/root/Freesurfer/Tone_Acquisition/Nl-TA1-001/mri/orig/001.mgz

mri_convert /root/U_Chicago/Tone_Acquisition/Nl-TA1-001/I.001
/root/Freesurfer/Tone_Acquisition/Nl-TA1-001/mri/orig/001.mgz
reading from /root/U_Chicago/Tone_Acquisition/Nl-TA1-001/I.001...
genesisRead(): can't determine file name format for
/root/U_Chicago/Tone_Acquisition/Nl-TA1-001/I.001
Linux dhcp-129-105-146-127.speech.northwestern.edu
                  
2.6.17-1.2157_FC5smp #1
                
SMP Tue Jul 11 23:24:16 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

recon-all exited with ERRORS at Thu Feb  8 13:52:57 CST 200

                  
              
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