Try using make_average_subject. That will create a T1 volume. Alternatively, you can run make_average_volume, which will just do the volume (make_average_subject will re-do the volume). Or even faster would be to copy the T1 volume from average7 or talairach into your average subject mri dir. You can do this and see if the problem goes away.

doug

Fornito, Alexander wrote:
I craeted the average using make_average_surface.
An average/mri/T1 directory gets created, but nothing is in there. There is no T1 volume at all.
Is this because I'm using an older version of recon-all (v 1.104 2005/09/07)?
Could this also explain my trouble creating scatterplots?

Alex Fornito
M.Psych/PhD (clin. neuro.) candidate
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre and Department of Psychology
National Neuroscience Facility
The University of Melbourne
Levels 2 & 3, Alan Gilbert Building
161 Barry St
Carlton South Vic 3053 Australia
Ph:    +61 3 8344 1624
Fax:   +61 3 9348 0469
email: alexander.fornito@wh.org.au



-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Greve [mailto:greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu]
Sent: Wed 4/12/2006 2:42 AM
To: Fornito, Alexander
Cc: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Repeated-measures in mris_glm
 

How did you create the average subject? Is there a T1.mgz in the mri 
dir? If so,  you might have an old version of tksurfer that is looking 
for COR files instead of mgz.

Fornito, Alexander wrote:

  
That did the trick, but I'm having trouble displaying the results.
First issue is that I can't seem to load my average surface in tksurfer from the command line.I get the following:

tksurfer average rh inflated
surfer: current subjects dir: /data/nelson/work/alex/freesurfer/subjects_twins
surfer: not in "scripts" dir ==> using cwd for session root
surfer: session root data dir ($session) set to:
surfer:     /data/nelson/work/alex/freesurfer/subjects_twins
ERROR: cound not stat /data/nelson/work/alex/freesurfer/subjects_twins/average/mri/T1/COR-.info.  Does it exist?
mghRead(/data/nelson/work/alex/freesurfer/subjects_twins/average/mri/T1.mgh, -1): could not open file
zcat: /data/nelson/work/alex/freesurfer/subjects_twins/average/mri/T1.mgz.gz: No such file or directory
mghRead(/data/nelson/work/alex/freesurfer/subjects_twins/average/mri/T1.mgz, -1): read error
surfer: ### Could not find anatomical header information.

What I do instead is load a subject's surface and then click load > Surface, and select the average one. 
When I load the sigt file as an overlay, what should I specify as the registration matrix?
Clicking "calculate identity matrix" seems to work, so I'm assuming this is ok?

After doing this, I can visualize the SPM ok, but have trouble when I try to obtain scatterplots for a gven vertex. tksurfer closes and I get the error below.(I've tried specifying markers and colors in the FSGD but it doesn't seem to make a difference)
I'm using recon-all-nmr,v 1.104 2005/09/07.

gdfReadHeader: reading /data/nelson/work/alex/freesurfer/subjects_twins/stats/twin_qualcheck_fsgd.txt
WARNING: Marker for class class_subj1 was invalid.
WARNING: Color for class class_subj1 was invalid.
WARNING: Marker for class class_subj2 was invalid.
WARNING: Color for class class_subj2 was invalid.
WARNING: Marker for class class_subj3 was invalid.
WARNING: Color for class class_subj3 was invalid.
WARNING: Marker for class class_subj4 was invalid.
WARNING: Color for class class_subj4 was invalid.
WARNING: Marker for class class_subj5 was invalid.
WARNING: Color for class class_subj5 was invalid.
surfer: dmin=0.8701, vno=132952, x=14.6850, y=-30.1178, z=47.7694
% surfer: curv=0.000000, fs=0.000000
% surfer: val=2.132707, val2=0.000000
% surfer: amp=2.132707, angle=0.000000 deg (0.000000)

Thanks again,
A


Oh, I'm sorry. I see the problem now. When I said to create a class
for each subject, I meant for each person, not for each FreeSurfer
subject. So there should only be 5 classes, not 10.

So do something like this:

Class class_subj1
Class class_subj2
Class class_subj3
Class class_subj4
Class class_subj5

Variables 			Time
Input time1_subj1 class_subj1 	-1
Input time2_subj1 class_subj1 	+1
...

doug

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Fornito, Alexander wrote:

 

    
I still get the same error message. Maybe I've coded the variable wrong?

gdfReadHeader: reading ./test_fsgd.txt
INFO: gd2mtx_method is doss
ERROR: Design Matrix: nrows (10) <= ncols (11)



Alex Fornito
M.Psych/PhD (clin. neuro.) candidate
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre and Department of Psychology
National Neuroscience Facility
The University of Melbourne
Levels 2 & 3, Alan Gilbert Building
161 Barry St
Carlton South Vic 3053 Australia
Ph:    +61 3 8344 1624
Fax:   +61 3 9348 0469
email: alexander.fornito@wh.org.au



-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Greve [mailto:greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu]
Sent: Tue 4/11/2006 11:43 AM
To: Fornito, Alexander
Cc: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Subject: RE: [Freesurfer] Repeated-measures in mris_glm


Yes, mris_preproc is new with stable. In your FSGD file, try
specifying the title as a single string without spaces.

doug



On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Fornito, Alexander wrote:

   

      
Hi Doug,
Is mri_preproc a new addition to the stable version? I'm using recon-all-nmr,v 1.104 2005/09/07 and can't seem to find it.
I tried running the analysis through mris_glm as per option 1 as you described, but came across a problem. Command, error, and my FSGD are below. Thanks,
Alex

Command:

mris_glm --surfmeas thickness --hemi lh --trgsubj ../average --fsgd ./test_fsgd.txt doss --beta ./beta_doss_thickness-100_lh bfloat --var ./var_doss_thickness-100_lh.w paint --y ./y_doss_thickness-100_lh_000.bfloat --nsmooth 100
gdfReadHeader: reading ./test_fsgd.txt
INFO: ignoring tag 1
INFO: gd2mtx_method is doss
ERROR: Design Matrix: nrows (10) <= ncols (11)

My FSGD:

GroupDescriptorFile 1
Title Time 1 vs Time 2
Class class_time1_subj1
Class class_time1_subj2
Class class_time1_subj3
Class class_time1_subj4
Class class_time1_subj5
Class class_time2_subj1
Class class_time2_subj2
Class class_time2_subj3
Class class_time2_subj4
Class class_time2_subj5
Variables 				Time
Input time1_subj1 class_time1_subj1 	-1
Input time1_subj2 class_time1_subj2 	-1
Input time1_subj3 class_time1_subj3 	-1
Input time1_subj4 class_time1_subj4 	-1
Input time1_subj5 class_time1_subj5 	-1
Input time2_subj1 class_time2_subj1	 1
Input time2_subj2 class_time2_subj2 	 1
Input time2_subj3 class_time2_subj3	 1
Input time2_subj4 class_time2_subj4 	 1
Input time2_subj5 class_time2_subj5 	 1
DefaultVariable Time

Alex Fornito
M.Psych/PhD (clin. neuro.) candidate
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre and Department of Psychology
National Neuroscience Facility
The University of Melbourne
Levels 2 & 3, Alan Gilbert Building
161 Barry St
Carlton South Vic 3053 Australia
Ph:    +61 3 8344 1624
Fax:   +61 3 9348 0469
email: alexander.fornito@wh.org.au



-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Greve [mailto:greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu]
Sent: Tue 4/11/2006 9:31 AM
To: Fornito, Alexander
Cc: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Repeated-measures in mris_glm


There are two ways to do it:

1. You can use DOSS, making each subject it's own class. Then create one
"Variable". For a given input, set the variable to either +1 or -1
depending upon whether it corresponds to  the first or second time
point. Then create a contrast as [0 0 0 0 ... 0 0 0 1], where there are
as many 0s as subjects. The last "1" will correspond to the Time Point
variable.

2. Alternatively, if you are using mris_preproc, you can specify
"--paired-diff", then just use a one-sample group mean test. See the
--help. This may be easier, and will also allow you to add a between
subject factor.

doug


Fornito, Alexander wrote:

     

        
Hi,
I'd like to run a simple repeated-measures analysis tetsing for change in thickness measures between 2 time points. There is no between-subjects factor, only the effect of time. Do I just set up a standard DOSS FSGD file, or do I use a different format? The tutorial only covers between-subjects designs.
Thanks,
Alex



Alex Fornito
M.Psych/PhD (clin. neuro.) candidate
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre and Department of Psychology
National Neuroscience Facility
The University of Melbourne
Levels 2 & 3, Alan Gilbert Building
161 Barry St
Carlton South Vic 3053 Australia
Ph:    +61 3 8344 1624
Fax:   +61 3 9348 0469
email: alexander.fornito@wh.org.au




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