Hi Maryam,

You should check your spm defaults to see whether it uses radiology or neurology convention. Most likely your spm has flipped your image, and the spmregister-sess is trying to match the left hemisphere of your functionals to the right hemisphere of your anatomical.

-Yuhong

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Maryam Vaziri Pashkam <mvaziri.p@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,


I am new to freesurfer and I am analyzing fmri data on a Mac OSX 10.5.8 computer using freesurfer 4.5. I have  SPM 8 and FSL also installed.


I have two versions of matlab (matlab R2009b & R2008a) on my computer. I think spm runs through the R2009b on my computer. I have added the SPM path to the startup.m of both matlabs by adding the following line (they both point to the same startup.m ):

path(path,'/Applications/spm8');


I run preprocessing on the data using the following command:

preproc-sess -nosmooth -sf retino-sess -df retino.dir


then I run automatic registration with the following command:

spmregister-sess -sf retino-sess -df retino.dir


It runs smoothly and there seems to be no errors. But when I try to check the registration with this command:


tkregister-sess -sf retino-sess -df retino.dir -inorm


what I see is not a good registration. Isn't spm register supposed to do a good job in automatic registration? The one that I get still needs a lot of manual adjustment. Am I doing something wrong? I have attached the log files for spmregister and tkregister and a screen shot of the image that I get after running tkregister. I would appreciate any help in this matter. 



Thanks,

Maryam



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