Thanks bruce and doug. The orientation is wrong hence, why I am using the orientation string. But, the above script is correct? 

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
don't use the orientation strings unless the orientation is wrong


On 11/29/2016 01:38 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote:
> you may not need the out_orientation, but perhaps someone else knows?
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2016, miracle ozzoude wrote:
>
>> Hello Bruce,
>> I wanted to confirm if this is the right script when converting from
>> one format to another using mri_convert (if i want to use
>> orig.mgz as template volume):
>> mri_convert --in_type analyze --in_orientation LAS -rl orig.mgz
>> --out_type mgz --out_orientation LAS brainmask.img brainmask.mgz
>> Thanks,
>> Paul
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 7:15 PM, <miracooloz@gmail.com> wrote:
>>       Awesome. Thank you very much Bruce.
>>
>>       Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>>         Original Message
>>       From: Bruce Fischl
>>       Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 5:14 PM
>>       To: Freesurfer support list
>>       Reply To: Freesurfer support list
>>       Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all -autorecon2 error.
>>
>>       -rl is for "reslice like" and you include it in the mri_convert
>> command
>>       line with orig.mgz as the template volume. Run mri_convert
>> --help and it
>>       should be clear
>>
>>       Bruce
>>
>>
>>       On Mon, 28
>>       Nov 2016, miracooloz@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>       > Thanks a lot Bruce. What do you mean by -rl and how do I
>> incorporate it to mri_convert?
>>       > Best,
>>       > Paul
>>       >
>>       > Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>>       >   Original Message
>>       > From: Bruce Fischl
>>       > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 4:57 PM
>>       > To: Freesurfer support list
>>       > Reply To: Freesurfer support list
>>       > Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] recon-all -autorecon2 error.
>>       >
>>       > I think this is your problem - the brainmask is not in the
>> same voxel
>>       > coords as the other volumes. YOu probably need to -rl
>> orig.mgz in your
>>       > conversion, then make sure that the volumes look aligned in
>> freeview (and
>>       > that mri_info gives the same ras2vox and such for them)
>>       > On Mon, 28 Nov 2016,
>>       > miracle ozzoude wrote:
>>       >
>>       >> Oh. Thanks bruce. For mri_info for my orig.mgz is
>>       >> Volume information for orig.mgz
>>       >>           type: MGH
>>       >>     dimensions: 256 x 256 x 256
>>       >>    voxel sizes: 1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000
>>       >>           type: UCHAR (0)
>>       >>            fov: 256.000
>>       >>            dof: 0
>>       >>         xstart: -128.0, xend: 128.0
>>       >>         ystart: -128.0, yend: 128.0
>>       >>         zstart: -128.0, zend: 128.0
>>       >>             TR: 0.00 msec, TE: 0.00 msec, TI: 0.00 msec,
>> flip angle: 0.00 degrees
>>       >>        nframes: 1
>>       >>        PhEncDir: UNKNOWN
>>       >>        FieldStrength: 0.000000
>>       >> ras xform present
>>       >>     xform info: x_r =  -1.0000, y_r =   0.0000, z_r =
>> 0.0000, c_r =  -110.0032
>>       >>               : x_a =   0.0000, y_a =   0.0000, z_a =
>> 1.0000, c_a =   110.0032
>>       >>               : x_s =   0.0000, y_s =  -1.0000, z_s =
>> 0.0000, c_s =    91.0000
>>       >>
>>       >> talairach xfm
>> :/net/synapse/nt/mozzoude/processing/freesurfer/176_001_120223/fsdir1/mri/transforms/tala
>>       >> irach.xfm
>>       >> Orientation   : LIA
>>       >> Primary Slice Direction: coronal
>>       >>
>>       >> voxel to ras transform:
>>       >>                -1.0000   0.0000   0.0000  17.9968
>>       >>                 0.0000   0.0000   1.0000 -17.9968
>>       >>                 0.0000  -1.0000   0.0000 219.0000
>>       >>                 0.0000   0.0000   0.0000 1.0000
>>       >>
>>       >> voxel-to-ras determinant -1
>>       >>
>>       >> ras to voxel transform:
>>       >>                -1.0000  -0.0000  -0.0000  17.9968
>>       >>                -0.0000  -0.0000  -1.0000 219.0000
>>       >>                -0.0000   1.0000  -0.0000  17.9968
>>       >>                -0.0000  -0.0000  -0.0000 1.0000
>>       >>
>>       >> Here's the mri_info for my new brainmask.mgz:
>>       >> Volume information for brainmask.mgz
>>       >>           type: MGH
>>       >>     dimensions: 256 x 256 x 182
>>       >>    voxel sizes: 0.859400, 0.859400, 1.000000
>>       >>           type: UCHAR (0)
>>       >>            fov: 220.006
>>       >>            dof: 0
>>       >>         xstart: -110.0, xend: 110.0
>>       >>         ystart: -110.0, yend: 110.0
>>       >>         zstart: -91.0, zend: 91.0
>>       >>             TR: 1000.00 msec, TE: 0.00 msec, TI: 0.00 msec,
>> flip angle: 0.00 degrees
>>       >>        nframes: 1
>>       >>        PhEncDir: UNKNOWN
>>       >>        FieldStrength: 0.000000
>>       >> ras xform present
>>       >>     xform info: x_r =  -1.0000, y_r =   0.0000, z_r =
>> 0.0000, c_r =     0.0000
>>       >>               : x_a =   0.0000, y_a =   1.0000, z_a =
>> 0.0000, c_a =     0.0000
>>       >>               : x_s =   0.0000, y_s =   0.0000, z_s =
>> 1.0000, c_s =     0.0000
>>       >>
>>       >> talairach xfm :
>>       >> Orientation   : LAS
>>       >> Primary Slice Direction: axial
>>       >>
>>       >> voxel to ras transform:
>>       >>                -0.8594   0.0000   0.0000 110.0032
>>       >>                 0.0000   0.8594   0.0000  -110.0032
>>       >>                 0.0000   0.0000   1.0000 -91.0000
>>       >>                 0.0000   0.0000   0.0000 1.0000
>>       >>
>>       >> voxel-to-ras determinant -0.738568
>>       >>
>>       >> ras to voxel transform:
>>       >>                -1.1636  -0.0000  -0.0000 128.0000
>>       >>                -0.0000   1.1636  -0.0000 128.0000
>>       >>                -0.0000  -0.0000   1.0000  91.0000
>>       >>                -0.0000  -0.0000  -0.0000 1.0000
>>       >>
>>       >>
>>       >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Bruce Fischl
>> <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>       >> Hi Paul
>>       >>
>>       >> if you run mri_info on the orig.mgz and your new
>> brainmask.mgz they should
>>       >> give you the same thing in terms of ras2vox and such
>>       >> cheers
>>       >> Bruce
>>       >> On Mon, 28 Nov 2016, miracle ozzoude wrote:
>>       >>
>>       >> This was the info from mri_convert  when i converted my skull
>>       >> stripped volume to mgz
>>       >> before replacing it with the brainmask from FS
>>       >> mri_convert --in_type analyze --in_orientation LAS
>> --out_type mgz
>>       >> --out_orientation LAS
>>       >> brainmask.img brainmask.mgz
>>       >> cp foldername/subjid/brainmask.mgz
>>       >> foldername/subjd/mri/brainmask.mgz
>>       >>
>>       >> INFO: could  not find ...mat file for direction cosine
>> infoINFO:
>>       >> use ANALYZE 7.5 hdr ->
>>       >> hist.orient value: 0, transverse unflipped (default
>>       >> INFO : if not valid, please provide the information .......
>> .mat
>>       >> file
>>       >> analyzeRead() roi_scale 0.00000000
>>       >> TR= 1000.00, TE = 0.00, TI = 0.00, flip angle  = 0.00
>>       >> setting input orientation to LAS
>>       >> i_ras = (-1, 0, 0)
>>       >> j_ras = (0,1,0)
>>       >> k_ras = (0,0,1)
>>       >> setting output orientation to LAS
>>       >> writing to brainmask.mgz
>>       >>
>>       >> why do i need the orig.mgz? I thought I only had to replace the
>>       >> brainmask.mgz (from FS)
>>       >> with mine brainmask,mgz( from lesion explorer after i have
>>       >> renamed it to brainmask.mgz).
>>       >> Also, I didn't use the "noskullstrip" flag like you suggested.
>>       >> Best,
>>       >> paul
>>       >>
>>       >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Bruce Fischl
>>       >> <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>       >>       I mean after you have converted it
>>       >>       On Mon, 28 Nov 2016, miracle ozzoude wrote:
>>       >>
>>       >>             Thanks Bruce for the response. mri_info? do you
>> mean
>>       >> when i
>>       >>             converted it from analyze to
>>       >>             mgz or when I ran recon-all autorecon2 after
>>       >> inserting it to
>>       >>             freesurfer.
>>       >>
>>       >>             On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Bruce Fischl
>>       >>             <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>       >>                   what is the output of mri_info on your new
>>       >> brainmask.mgz
>>       >>             and on say the
>>       >>                   orig.mgz? You may need to conform you
>> brainmask
>>       >>
>>       >>                   On Mon, 28 Nov 2016, miracle ozzoude wrote:
>>       >>
>>       >>                         Hello Freesurfer, I ran recon-all
>>       >> -autorecon 1 -s
>>       >>             subjID on  T1
>>       >>                         (T1_nii) image and after
>>       >>                         that, I replaced the skull stripped
>>       >> volume generated
>>       >>             from FS with
>>       >>                         the skull stripped
>>       >>                         volume from lesion explorer ( using
>>       >> mri_convert
>>       >>             in_type analyze
>>       >>                          in_orientation LAS
>>       >>                         out-type img out_orientation LAS
>> mgz; cp
>>       >>             folder/brainmask.mgz
>>       >> folder/subjID/mri/brainmask.mgz). Then, I
>>       >> ran
>>       >>             recon-all
>>       >>                         -autorecon2 -autorecon2 -s
>>       >>                         subjID. My recon-all is stucked at
>>       >>
>>       >>                         CORRECTION DEFECT 0 (vertices=49378,
>>       >> convex
>>       >>             hull=3422, v0 =0)
>>       >>                         XL defect detected....
>>       >>
>>       >>                         Please how do I resolve this problem?
>>       >>
>>       >>                         I am running freesurfer-6
>> development. I
>>       >> have
>>       >>             attached the
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