Hi Gabriela
it's hard to get a stable ICV measure from only a T1-weighted image, since you can't really distinguish bone from air. You can use supra tentorial, but you are testing a slightly different hypothesis (i.e. that hippocampal volume is changing faster than supratentorial volume).
cheers Bruce
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, HOSSU Gabriela wrote:
Dear all,
I am working with FreeSurfer version 5.10 from 2 months. I am interested in hippocampus volume measurements and I want to normalize them with the intracranial volume.
We have scanned about 4 times the same 2 healthy subjects (3T GE HDxt, 8 channel coil). 3D acquisitions were made with the BRAVO GE sequence in coronal and sagittal planes (roughly with the same parameters) .
On the hippocampus we obtained about 5% intra subject variation but for the ICV intra subject variation is around 15%.
With the supra tentorial volume estimations, the variation is around 2%.
Any idea to explain this so important difference for the ICV estimation?
Can we use the supra tentorial volume in order to normalize our hippocampus estimations?
Thanks,
Gabriela HOSSU, Ph.D.
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