Hi Bruce,

We want to analyze some scans that were compressed when they were stored. Compression factor varies from 3:1 to about 7:1 or so. unfortunately, we don't have access to the "raw" dicom data. Can we do this?

thanks for your help,

cheers,

catherine

From: Bruce Fischl <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
To: Cat Chong <cavecreekcutter@yahoo.com>
Cc: "freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu" <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 6, 2012 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] SPGR compressed files

Hi Catherine

can you explain what you mean by compression?

Bruce

On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Cat Chong
wrote:

> Hi Experts,
>
> We wanted to run clinical scans that underwent some compression at the
> scanner through freesurfer.
> I just wanted to seek confirmation that SPGR sequences that have undergone
> slight compression can not be run through freesurfer, is that correct?
>
> thank you,
> catherine
>
>

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