Thank you Doug and Bruce now everything works and the region is perfectly aligned! 

Best
Francesca

2015-12-03 18:03 GMT+02:00 Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>:
oops, gave you the wrong option, it should be

--regheader $SUBJECTS_DIR/mni152-recon/mri/orig.mgz



On 12/03/2015 10:22 AM, Francesca Strappini wrote:
> Thanks!
>
> I run this command:
>
> mri_label2vol --label lh.V1dorsalLG_MNI.label --temp
> /usr/share/fsl/data/standard/MNI152_T1_2mm.nii.gz --regheader
> /usr/share/fsl/data/standard/MNI152_T1_2mm.nii.gz --o
> lh.V1dorsalLG_MNI.nii.gz
>
> but unfortunately, it gave me the same big downward shift (I checked
> it with fslview).
>
> But if  I try to open the ROI with freeview it gives me this error:
> freeview.bin: empty label
> LabelRead failed
> freeview.bin: empty label
>
> 2015-12-03 16:57 GMT+02:00 Douglas Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
> <mailto:greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>>:
>
>     Use --regheader /usr/share/fsl/data/standard/MNI152_T1_2mm.nii.gz
>     instead of --identity
>
>
>
>     On 12/3/15 8:46 AM, Francesca Strappini wrote:
>>     Thank you!
>>
>>     I run the recon-all on the MNI brain and now the first step,
>>     label2label, produced a label which is perfectly mapped on the
>>     surface of the MNI template.
>>     I tried to run the second step, mapping the new label to the
>>     volume, but I still got the shift downward.
>>
>>     mri_label2vol --label lh.V1dorsalLG_MNI.label --temp
>>     /usr/share/fsl/data/standard/MNI152_T1_2mm.nii.gz --o
>>     lh.V1dorsalLG_MNI.nii.gz --identity
>>
>>     Best
>>     Francesca
>>
>>
>>
>>     2015-12-01 20:26 GMT+02:00 Douglas N Greve
>>     <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>>:
>>
>>         Try adding --invertmtx to the mri_label2vol command. I don't
>>         think the
>>         label2label command does anything, does it? Also, you might
>>         have better
>>         alignment if you run recon-all on the mni152 brain, then use
>>         mri_label2label to map the label from the individual into the
>>         152 space
>>         using the surface transform, then convert that to the volume.
>>
>>         On 11/30/2015 10:13 AM, Francesca Strappini wrote:
>>         > Dear FreeSurfer experts,
>>         >
>>         > I'm trying to convert some retinotopic labels I created on
>>         the surface
>>         > of each individual subject to MNI305 space for FSL.
>>         >
>>         > I run the following commands, but the output is not registered
>>         > correctly. It seems to be shifted downward.
>>         >
>>         > mni152reg --s LG
>>         >
>>         > mri_label2label --srclabel lh.V1dorsalLG.label  --s LG
>>         --regmethod
>>         > surface --trglabel lh.V1dorsalLG_new.label --hemi lh
>>         >
>>         > mri_label2vol --label lh.V1dorsalLG_new.label --reg
>>         > /usr/local/freesurfer/subjects/LG/mri/mni152.orig.mgz.reg
>>         --temp
>>         > /usr/share/fsl/data/standard/MNI152_T1_2mm.nii.gz --o
>>         > lh.V1dorsalLG_new_MNI.nii.gz
>>         >
>>         > Thanks for your help,
>>         > Francesca
>>         >
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