After processing dozens of subjects through tracula I have found some subjects with tracts that are one voxel along the entire tract, for example the forceps major. After reviewing the data I believe the bvecs files are pointing the correct direction, I believe the registration between the T1/freesurfer segmentation and DTI is reasonably good (registration was performed with bbr), at least the anat_brain_mask-vent.bbr and dtifit_FA are reasonable and cortex.bbr and lowb_brain seem reasonably well registered. The brain extraction does look poor in that a large chunk of posterior skull remains in the anat_brain_mask-vent.bbr image but the as the registrations, segmentations and parcellations look OK I believe this isn't the cause of my problems.