- using libreoffice instead of excel to transpose the bvec/bval files ;
- with english as linguisitic parameter,
- save the file as cvs document, with the filter parameters box checked
- in the filer option choose "space" as field separator; " as text separator, "unicode UTF-8" as encoding
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----- Mail original -----
> De: "Anastasia Yendiki"
ayendiki@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
> À: "Allison Gruber"
amg2270@columbia.edu
> Cc: Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
> Envoyé: Mercredi 9 Janvier 2013 22:43:01
> Objet: Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula preprocessing step error
>
>
> Hi Allison - Instead of using excel, I would use a unix-based text
> editor,
> whichever is available on the system where you are running the
> analyses.
> This way you can ensure that unix commands read your text files
> properly.
>
> The 3 values for each diffusion gradient vector are its x, y, z
> components, so I wouldn't change their order, unless you have reason
> to
> believe that the order is not correct the way it was given to you.
>
> Hope this helps,
> a.y
>
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Allison Gruber wrote:
>
> > Hi Anastasia,
> >
> > Thanks so much for your help. I was able to correct this problem in
> > my
> > configuration file. I have now run into another error- "bvecs and
> > bvals don't have the same number of entries." I have read other
> > postings about this error and can see that my bvec file is not
> > formatted correctly when I import into Excel. However, I am not
> > sure
> > how to correctly fix this formatting. I know that I have 28 bval
> > entries and
> > 84 bvec entries, so the overall number is correct. I am just
> > unclear on how
> > to fix the formatting of the bvec file so that it corresponds
> > correctly to
> > the ordering in the bval file (which order the bvec entries should
> > appear in
> > within the three columns). Do you have any resources on this?
> >
> > Thank you again for your help,
> > Allison
> >
> > Quoting Anastasia Yendiki
ayendiki@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu:
> >
> >>
> >> Hi Allison - The mri_convert command at the top of your log file
> >> is
> >> trying to convert the directory
> >> /Users/Desktop/Tracula/diffusion_DTI to
> >> a nifti file. From the name of that nifti file, it looks like it's
> >> expecting to find a field map and not finding it.
> >>
> >> Hope this helps,
> >> a.y
> >>
> >> On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Allison Gruber wrote:
> >>
> >> > Dear Freesurfer experts,
> >> >
> >> > I have encountered the following error while running the tracula
> >> > pre-processing command and was hoping you could help me
> >> > understand how
> >> > to correct this.
> >> >
> >> > Selection from log:
> >> >
> >> > mri_convert /Users/Desktop/Tracula/diffusion_DTI/
> >> > /Users/Desktop/Tracula/diffusion_DTI/SubjectX/dmri/b0mag.nii.gz
> >> > mri_convert /Users/Desktop/Tracula/diffusion_DTI/
> >> > /Users/Desktop/Tracula/diffusion_DTI/SubjectX/dmri/b0mag.nii.gz
> >> > corRead(): can't open file
> >> > /Users/Desktop/Tracula/diffusion_DTI/COR-.info
> >> > $Id: mri_convert.c,v 1.179.2.2 2011/05/16 20:53:47 greve Exp $
> >> > reading from /Users/Desktop/Tracula/diffusion_DTI/...
> >> > Darwin MacBook-Pro.local 11.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.0:
> >> > Mon Apr
> >> > 9 19:32:15 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.26.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
> >> >
> >> > trac-preproc exited with ERRORS at Tue Jan 8 14:34:39 EST 2013
> >> >
> >> > Please let me know if this is not enough information. Thank you
> >> > for
> >> > your help.
> >> >
> >> > Allison
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