Hey Doug,
Sorry I did miss your response last time, thank you for the advice.

I tried running the analysis again and this time it did create the angle file.  However, now I'm running into a different problem.

I can get the angle map to show up on the surface of my subject's brain but I can't get the color wheel overlay to work.  When I select it the surface of the brain goes black and the segmentation lines are the only things remaining.  Is the color wheel display not working a known issue by any chance?

Thanks so much,
Daniel

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Daniel Cole <dcole10@u.rochester.edu> wrote:
Hello again,
Don't mean to be a bother.  I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on what possibly be going wrong during my retinotopic analysis that I posted.  I'm at quite a loss and would appreciate a look.

Thanks and best,
Daniel


On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Daniel Cole <dcole10@u.rochester.edu> wrote:
Hello,
I have some questions regarding the FsFastIndividual pipeline.  I hope you can take a look at the commands I have run and give me some insight into what the problem might potentially be.  I have 5 rotating wedge stimuli runs

1. I set up my subject's directories according to the freesurfer tutorial powerpoint and declare my environmental variables using-
<export FREESURFER_HOME=/Volumes/RCBI/freesurfer
export SUBJECTS_DIR=/Volumes/rcbiUsers/dcole/Retinotopy
source $FREESURFER_HOME/SetUpFreeSurfer.sh>

Bold data renamed to f.nii.gz and placed into run folders (001, 002, etc)

rtopy.par="
stimtype polar
direction neg"

2. I then reconstruct the strucutural data using-
<recon-all -i /Volumes/rcbiUsers/dcole/Retinotopy/VG01/raw/VGP01_001.dcm -subjid VG01>

3. I create the subjectname file, run preprocessing, and make the analysis files.
<preproc-sess -surface self lhrh -fwhm 5 -sf sessid -fsd bold
mkanalysis-sess -analysis rtopy.self.lh -surface self lh -TR 1.2 -abblocked 38.4 -fsd bold -fwhm 5
mkanalysis-sess -analysis rtopy.self.rh -surface self rh -TR 1.2 -abblocked 38.4 -fsd bold -fwhm 5>

4. Then I run the analysis using-
<selxavg3-sess -analysis rtopy.self.lh -sf sessid
selxavg3-sess -analysis rtopy.self.lh -sf sessid>
~This step was giving me an error until I added "faux" eccentricity run folders with runs 1-5 functional data copied and rtopy.par files with stimtype eccen.  Rerunning these 2 steps with the faux eccentricity data fixed the error message.

5. Create occipital patch with (http://www.alivelearn.net/?p=65) as guideline.  Flatten patch using- 
<mris_flatten -w 0 -distances 20 7 lh.occip.patch.3d lh.occip.patch.flat
mris_flatten -w 0 -distances 20 7 rh.occip.patch.3d rh.occip.patch.flat>

And create fieldsign map using-
<fieldsign-sess -a rtopy.self.lh -occip -sf sessid
fieldsign-sess -a rtopy.self.rh -occip -sf sessid>
~Error that analysis isn't retinotopy (because I used -abblocked), retrying step 3 with -retinotopy allowed me to create the fieldsign map.

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For the -abblocked and -retinotopy analysis I am able to look at the results using <tksurfer-sess -a rtopy.self.lh -sf sessid>.
My questions are:
- Should I be using -abblocked or -retinotopy for a polar only design?
- Is it ok to create "faux" eccentricity folders and then only look at the polar data?
- Why is it for either of these analyses I can't view the angle map using <tksurfer-sess -a rtopy.self.?h -s sessid -map angle>? In fact the angle file is not created.

Thanks so much for your time and help.

Daniel


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Daniel Cole
University of Rochester
Brain and Cognitive Sciences




--
Daniel Cole
University of Rochester
Brain and Cognitive Sciences




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Daniel Cole
University of Rochester
Brain and Cognitive Sciences
dcole10@u.rochester.edu