By that I mean that I only have a normal MPRAGE anatomical scan. By "inflated" I mean that I ran recon-all on this anatomical so that I can display the inflated surface for example. So when I said I inflated the anatomical I meant I ran recon-all. Sorry for the confusing terminology.


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
Hi Bianca, I still don't understand how you have the anatomical from the
polar session but you don't have the "inflated". What does that mean?
doug

On 07/14/2013 09:52 AM, Bianca van Kemenade wrote:
> Dear Doug & Bruce,
>
> It's indeed a confusing situation. What it boils down to is:
>
> - I scanned the polar angle session and the eccentricity session on
> different days
> - I had defined V1-3 already based on the polar angle session before
> scanning eccentricity
> - All data from the polar angle session were lost, apart from the V1-3
> labels I made and the anatomical (not inflated)
> - Since I now didn't have an inflated brain anymore, I inflated the
> anatomical from the eccentricity
> - When I tried to overlay the labels onto this newly inflated brain,
> the labels were not correctly displayed
>
> I just tried again by inflating the anatomical from the polar angle
> session (instead of eccentricity), and when I use tksurfer P2_BK lh
> inflated -reassign the labels are displayed correctly, so that's great
> news!
>
> However, when I display my eccentricity data, with tksurfer-sess -c
> eccen -fthresh 0.5 -a rtopy.self.lh.eccen -s P2_BK, the labels are
> wrong again. Adding -reassign doesn't work in this command (flag not
> recognised). So at least I could open two terminals, one to display
> the inflated brain with correct labels, and one to display the
> eccentricity data. This is of course not ideal if I want to draw
> labels on the eccentricity screen using the labels displayed in the
> other screen as a boundary. So if anyone has an idea how to get the
> labels to be displayed correctly with the tksurfer-sess command please
> let me know.
>
> In any case, thank you all for your help so far!
>
> Best,
> Bianca
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Douglas N Greve
> <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Bianca, I'm still unclear what it is you have done.
>
>     You only need to run freesurfer on one of the anatomicals, it does not
>     matter which one.
>
>     You should not do anything to the fMRI runs (eg, align with SPM). You
>     should put your eccen and polar data into a single bold folder under
>     your session folder.
>
>     Then run preproc-sess.
>
>     I'm not sure how this overlaps with what you have done
>
>     doug
>
>
>     On 07/11/2013 05:10 AM, Bianca van Kemenade wrote:
>     > Well the situation is as follows:
>     >
>     > I had a polar angle session, of which I only have the labels and the
>     > anatomical (not inflated) left due to a computer crash. In a
>     different
>     > session, I scanned both my main experiment and the eccentricity
>     runs.
>     > Since the eccentricity was in the same session as the main
>     experiment,
>     > I included those runs in my preprocessing batch in SPM, that is I
>     > realigned them and coregistered the data to the anatomical of the
>     > polar angle session. I then inflated the anatomical of this newer
>     > session (the one with eccentricity) and did my analyses of the
>     > eccentricity data without using preproc-sess. Apologies if I
>     wasn't clear.
>     >
>     > I thought it should therefore be no problem to overlay the polar
>     angle
>     > labels onto the newly inflated anatomical, since this one was
>     > coregistered to the one from the polar angle session. However the
>     > labels don't look correct. Should I have inflated the 'old'
>     anatomical
>     > instead? Or would I then nevertheless have needed some kind of
>     > transformation?
>     >
>     > I tried mri_label2label, but when I use a command like this:
>     >
>     > mri_label2label --srcsubject P2_BK_test --trgsubject P2_BK
>     --scrlabel
>     > lh_V1_v.label --trglabel lh_V1_v_new.label --regmethod volume
>     >
>     > then it requires access to the anatomical in mri/orig from the
>     > srcsubject (the same subject, old session), which I don't have.
>     Well I
>     > do have the .nii anatomical, but it can't read that header
>     either, it
>     > probably needs the .mgz one which I don't have. When I try the
>     command
>     > like this:
>     >
>     > mri_label2label --s P2_BK --scrlabel lh_V1_v.label --trglabel
>     > lh_V1_v_new.label --regmethod volume
>     >
>     > it does create a new label, which however looks exactly the same as
>     > the previous one. When I change --regmethod to surface, it gives
>     this
>     > error:
>     > ERROR: there is a vertex in the label that cannot be matched to the
>     > surface. This usually occurs when the label and surface are from
>     > different subjects or hemispheres or the surface has been changed
>     > since the label was created.
>     >
>     > I'm not sure about using bbregister for the labels, what would
>     be the
>     > movable volume? And do I then use the register.dat file to load the
>     > labels with? Thanks again for your patience and help.
>     >
>     > Best,
>     > Bianca
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Douglas N Greve
>     > <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
>     <mailto:greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
>     <mailto:greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >     Hi Bianca, I'm a little confused. What do you mean you
>     registered with
>     >     SPM beforehand? If you're using FSFAST, then the registration is
>     >     done as
>     >     part of preproc-sess. The results for both sessions are on the
>     >     surface,
>     >     so there is no need to do anything to a label created from
>     one session
>     >     to show it on another session.
>     >
>     >     doug
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >     On 07/10/2013 11:55 AM, Bianca van Kemenade wrote:
>     >     > Hi Bruce,
>     >     >
>     >     > Thank you for your reply. I coregistered the new data
>     beforehand in
>     >     > SPM (to the structural of the old session). So I didn't do
>     >     anything to
>     >     > the label. I displayed the structural with tksurfer-sess
>     -c eccen
>     >     > -fthresh 0.5 -a rtopy.self.lh -s P2_BK (since I wanted to
>     display my
>     >     > eccentricity data) and loaded the label just by clicking
>     load -->
>     >     > label. Should I add -reassign in this tksurfer command, or is
>     >     there a
>     >     > way to load the label with a command, to which I have to add
>     >     -reassign?
>     >     >
>     >     > Also, I'm not familiar with freeview, I tried starting it
>     by typing
>     >     > 'freeview' but I get the error: freeview.bin: error while
>     loading
>     >     > shared libraries libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object
>     file: No
>     >     such
>     >     > file or directory. It doesn't seem to depend on which
>     directory
>     >     I'm in.
>     >     >
>     >     > Thanks,
>     >     > Bianca
>     >     >
>     >     >
>     >     > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Bruce Fischl
>     >     > <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
>     <mailto:fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
>     <mailto:fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
>     <mailto:fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>>
>     >     <mailto:fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
>     <mailto:fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
>     >     <mailto:fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
>     <mailto:fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>>>> wrote:
>     >     >
>     >     >     Hi Bianca
>     >     >
>     >     >     how did you coregister the data? Did you map the label so
>     >     that it
>     >     >     is in the coords of the new session? If so, try specifying
>     >     >     -reassign on the tksurfer command line. That will
>     discard the
>     >     >     vertex indices in the label (which refer to the first
>     session
>     >     >     surfaces) and reassign vertex numbers from the current
>     subject.
>     >     >     This will *only* work if the label is in the correct
>     coordinate
>     >     >     system. You can verify this by loading it in freeview
>     on top of
>     >     >     the anatomical from the new session
>     >     >     cheers
>     >     >     Bruce
>     >     >
>     >     >
>     >     >
>     >     >
>     >     >     On Wed, 10 Jul 2013, Bianca van Kemenade wrote:
>     >     >
>     >     >         Hi Freesurfers,
>     >     >
>     >     >         I have some participants of whom I obtained
>     retinotopic
>     >     polar
>     >     >         angle data in a previous session, and scanned
>     >     eccentricity data in
>     >     >         a later session. I used the polar angle data to
>     define V1-3,
>     >     >         and would like to display these labels on the
>     >     eccentricity session
>     >     >         to help me define V3A.
>     >     >
>     >     >         However, when I load my old V1-3 labels onto the
>     inflated
>     >     >         brain based on the new session the labels look very
>     >     strange. I
>     >     >         attached a screenshot of what is supposed to be lh
>     >     dorsal V1,
>     >     >         as you can see it is scattered all over the
>     cortex. When
>     >     I load
>     >     >         the .nii based on the label into MRIcron, the ROI
>     looks
>     >     fine.
>     >     >
>     >     >         Data from the newer session were coregistered to
>     the older
>     >     >         session, so that can't be the problem.
>     >     >
>     >     >         I looked around on the wiki and found the command
>     >     >         mri_label2label that seemed useful. However, this
>     command
>     >     >         needs acces to the
>     >     >         'surf' folders of both sessions. Due to a computer
>     crash I
>     >     >         only have the labels of the previous session, not
>     the 'surf'
>     >     >         folder.
>     >     >         Is there a way to display my old labels onto the
>     new session
>     >     >         without needing access to 'surf'?
>     >     >
>     >     >         Thanks,
>     >     >         Bianca
>     >     >
>     >     >
>     >     >
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