Hi Martin,
Thanks for your quick response.
I think I am understanding you correctly. For clarification... Say, we have original points (x, y, z) in a given space and we'd like to transform it to a difference space:
x-translation: x' = x + p y' = y z'= z y-translation: x' = x y' =y +q z'= z x-translation: x' = x y' = y x' = x = r
Then:
[image: affinematrix.png]
The top left 3x3 submatrix in the last line above is equivalent to the left 3x3 submatrix of the matrix from talairach.xfm, and the very right column in the matrix from talairach.xfm is equivalent to : [p] [q] [r]
Am I understanding you correctly?
Thank you.
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On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Martin Reuter mreuter@nmr.mgh.harvard.eduwrote:
Hi Lisa,
this is an affine transformation. Usually there is a 4th row containing 0 0 0 1
A point at position x,y,z is mapped to the target location via
M * (x,y,z,1)^t where M is the 4x4 matrix and (x,y,z,1)^T is the column vector of the coordinates of the point with a 1 in the 4th row.
The top left 3x3 sub matrix of M is a linear transformation (rotation,scaling, sheering combined) and the last column is the translation.
Take a look here to review http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_matrix
So you cannot directly extract scaling factors and rotation from the 3x3 submatrix.
Best, Martin
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 10:51 -0700, Lisa F. Akiyama wrote:
Hello,
Could someone inform me what each value of the 3x4 talairach transformation matrix signifies (e.g. translation, rotation in specific directions)? Here's an example of an talairach.xfm output.
MNI Transform File % tkregister2 Transform_Type = Linear; Linear_Transform = 1.05550623 0.03465762 -0.08214028 -3.92954969 0.02312534 1.03939676 0.38879746 -13.37033176 0.00010875 -0.35171938 1.10944259 -10.23139286Thank you.
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On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Lisa F. Akiyama lrisa87@uw.edu wrote: Hello,
Are there any documentations on the details of the talairach_avi command and the 3x4 matrix (talairach.xfm) output? Thank you. Best, Lisa Akiyama ______________________________ Lisa F. Akiyama Research Study Assistant Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) University of Washington P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.
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