Thanks Doug! It worked!

Joana

2011/10/17 Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
No, use the register.dat that you manually created as the input to bbregister with the --init-reg. You could move your register.dat to regidster.man.dat and set the output to be register.dat.

doug

Joana Braga Pereira wrote:
Hi Doug,

Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure i understand how to solve it.
Are you suggesting to re-run bbregister using the --init-reg option and the register.dat files  that were previously created for the badly-registered subjects?

Joana


2011/10/17 Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>>


   Those almost surely failed because of a bad initialization. You
   can usually tell this by looking at the first value in the mincost
   file. For these, the mincost is something like .9. The mincost
   will be a value bet 0 and 1.1, with 0 being perfect. Looks at your
   good subjects to get an idea of what range to expect for
   well-registered subjects. You should be able to use the
   registrations you created as input to bbregister (with the
   --init-reg option), and bbregister should do fine after that.
   doug

   Joana Braga Pereira wrote:

       Hi Doug,

       I made quite a few changes, including translations and
       rotations (not scaling changes), to 10 out of 24 subjects.

       Here are a few of the bbregister log.files from subjects in
       which the registration didn't go well.

       Thanks for the help!

       Joana

       2011/10/17 Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
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          Hi Joana, how big were the changes that you made? Sometimes the
          initialization routine won't get it close enough, then
       bbregister
          fails. Can you send the bbregister log file?
          doug

          Lilla Zollei wrote:


              Even though it is not ideal, manual adjustments can be
       useful.
              I would use manual registration in a small number of cases
              though. If most of your data requires it, I would try
       to play
              with the automatic registration parameters more.

              --Lilla

              On Sun, 16 Oct 2011, Joana Braga Pereira wrote:

                  Dear Lilla and Ed,
                  Thanks a lot for your suggestions, they were really
       really
                  helpful!

                  I did the analyses as you suggested. After bbregister i
                  checked the results with tkregister2 and saw that most
                  subjects were well coregistered. However in a few
       of them
                  my lowb images were out of place with respect to the
                  target and so i made manual adjustments using
       bbregister
                  interface tools..

                  I was just wondering whether this is the normal
       procedure
                  as manual adjustments can be quite subjective and i
       would
                  prefer not to introduce such a bias in the analyses.

                  Thanks a lot for your valuable help!

                  Joana

                               2011/10/15 Ed Gronenschild
       <ed.gronenschild@np.unimaas.nl
       <mailto:ed.gronenschild@np.unimaas.nl>
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                       Dear Joana,
                  Two things:

                  1.
                  You should be very careful to use fslswapdim since
       it may
                  result
                  in an unintended left-right flipping. It's better
       to use
                  fslreorient2std.
                  2.
                  The tool dt-recon computes the coregistration of
       the lowb
                  volume to
                  the anatomical volume, see register.dat.
                  You can then use the following to coregister FA:

                  mri_vol2vol --reg  register.dat --mov fa.nii --o
                  fa-ana.nii -targ subject/mri/T1.mgz

                  where "subject" is the output folder generated by the
                  recon-all command.
                  You should not forget to set the global variable
       SUBJECTS_DIR

                  Cheers,
                  Ed

                  On 14 Oct, 2011, at 18:00,
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                  Dear Bruce and Anastasia,

                  Thanks for the quick reply!

                  I tried the bbregister as you suggested but when i
                  visualize the target and
                  dti image they don't look registered at all.

                  This is the comand i used:

                  bbregister --s CN01 --mov
                  /home/joana/FA/CN01/dti_FA.nii.gz --reg
                  /home/joana/FA/CN01/register.dat --init-fsl --dti
                  --template-out
                  /home/joana/FA/CN01/template.nii.gz --fslmat
                  /home/joana/FA/CN01/flirt.tmx

                  I tried to use the bbregister tools to align them but I
                  didn't get very
                  far...

                  Did i miss something?

                  I read in another mail something about using the
                  register.dat created in
                  bbregister and do mri_label2vol but i'm not sure
       how to do it.

                  Thanks,

                  Joana



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