Hi Matt I doubt you could accurately correct the 0.25mm distortions that would be widespread, not to mention the extra interpolation. Much better to distortion match the acquisitions Bruce
On Nov 20, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Matt Glasser matt@ma-tea.com wrote:
You can correct the readout distortion with a field map. The main residual is just signal loss in the gradient echo image.
Peace,
Matt.
On 11/20/12 7:22 PM, "Bruce Fischl" fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:
sure. Note that whichever you do it's absolutely critical to bandwidth and readout match them so there is no differential distortion between the contrast types Bruce On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Satrajit Ghosh wrote:
thanks matt and bruce. this is very helpful. cheers,
satra
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Bruce Fischl fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: yes, that's probably true. The FLAIR we use is just a T2-SPACE scan with an inversion pulse to put CSF at the null point, so if you can get T2-space at .7 you should be able to get FLAIR (although you do burn some SNR with the inversion)
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Matt Glasser wrote: Hi Bruce, Can you get good FLAIRs at 0.7mm isotropic? The fluid thing makes sense for surface reconstruction, but I think it would mess up myelin maps if someone also wanted to do that using the ratio method. If the CSF is now dark and you divide the dark CSF in the T1w with dark CSF in the T2w, you would get unpredictable results in the partial volume region along the edge. Thanks, Matt. On 11/20/12 6:27 PM, "Bruce Fischl" <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote: Hi Satra the T1 maps accomplish much of what the ratio does - it gets rid of receive bias effects. I'm not really sure which is better. They are about the same amount of scan time. The advantage of including the flair inversion pulse in the T2 space is that it nulls fluid and lets intensities by monotonically decreasing moving outwards from the gray/white boundary. This makes partial volume effects less of a problem. Dura is also pretty much totally absent from the FLAIR and in the prelim data that we've processed having the FLAIR images lets the surface recover from pretty much all mistakes in which dura is included in the pial surface. cheers Bruce On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Matt Glasser wrote: If you make a T1 map you can use that to look at differences in myelin content, but I don't know all of the ways to calculate T1 or if you could get that from only two flip angles. Two images with roughly the same contrast won't work for the ratio method. You need to have opposite contrast. Also I'm not sure how a FLAIR would be better than a T2-SPACE. Peace, Matt. From: Satrajit Ghosh <satra@mit.edu> Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 5:51 PM To: Matt Glasser <matt@ma-tea.com> Cc: "Watson, Christopher" <Christopher.Watson@childrens.harvard.edu>, "Winter, Warren" <Warren.Winter@childrens.harvard.edu>, "freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu" <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Tool for incorporating T2-SPACE data in pial surface recons? hi matt: could you generate the myelin maps say from two flash scans at different flip angles? bruce: if one had a choice between an mprage + t2 flair and 2 flash scans at 5/20 flip angles, what would be your recommendation? cheers, satra On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Matt Glasser <matt@ma-tea.com> wrote: If you get an MPRAGE and T2-SPACE you can make myelin maps too. FreeSurfer's final surface placement benefits a lot from high resolution images (less than 1mm) and you can still get good SNR with when you use 32-channel coils. Peace, Matt. On 11/20/12 4:41 PM, "Bruce Fischl" <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:Yes, definitely. The
t2-space flair is a big helpOn Nov 20, 2012, at
5:40 PM, "Watson, Christopher"wrote:Hi Bruce, So would you
recommend acquiring a T2 in addition to an(ME)MPRAGE/SPGR? i.e.
is it worth squeezing another acquisition into aprotocol?
Chris
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[Freesurfer] Tool for incorporating T2-SPACE data in pialsurface recons?
Hi Warren
yes, it will be part
of the upcoming 5.2 release, hopefully in Dec. Itwill use either a
FLAIR or T2 (ideally T2-SPACE for either one)cheers Bruce On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Winter,
Warren wrote:Hi all,
Back in January and
October Bruce mentioned that he had underdevelopment some
scripts designed to utilize T2-SPACE images for betterpial surface
reconstruction in the presence of dura -- I was justwondering if any of
that is ready for trial?Thanks!
Warren
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