Hi,

I was wondering if there is any documentation on mri_cnr, particularly how the noise is calculated.

Thank you,
Paul



 > 
 > thanks Dr. B.....that helped a lot 
 >  
 > ----- Original Message ----- 
 > From: "Bruce Fischl" <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
 > To: "Kushal Kapse" <kkapse@mail.med.upenn.edu
 > Cc: "freesurfer" <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
 > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 2:27:29 PM 
 > Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] mri_cnr 
 >  
 > Hi KK 
 >  
 > this is something i wrote for myself, but you are welcome to try it out.  
 > YOu don't need to give it the slope stuff, that is optional. The "vol"  
 > command line parms are the volumes that you want to assess CNR in. For  
 > example: 
 >  
 > mri_cnr ~/local_subjects/bruce/surf ~/local_subjects/bruce/mri/norm.mgz 
 > processing MRI volume /homes/4/fischl/local_subjects/bruce/mri/norm.mgz... 
 >         white = 95.8+-9.7, gray = 65.3+-17.9, csf = 40.1+-17.2 
 >         gray/white CNR = 2.241, gray/csf CNR = 1.026 
 > lh CNR = 1.633 
 >         white = 95.7+-9.9, gray = 65.5+-17.8, csf = 41.5+-17.4 
 >         gray/white CNR = 2.205, gray/csf CNR = 0.937 
 > rh CNR = 1.571 
 > total CNR = 1.602 
 >  
 >  
 > On Mon,  
 > 18 Jun 2012, Kushal Kapse wrote: 
 >  
 > > hi fellas, 
 > > 
 > > i am trying to run mri_cnr command in freesurfer to compute and see CNR for gray/white/csf.... the command gives following info as help: 
 > > 
 > > -bash-3.2$ mri_cnr 
 > > usage: mri_cnr [options] <surf directory> <vol 1> <vol 2> ... 
 > >   -s <slope fname> <dist in> <dist out> <step in> <step out> 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > i understand that 'surf directory'= subjects 'surf' folder ; but i am not able to figure out what it means by vol1, vol2 and slope fname......it doesnt show any error but just doesnt do anything even if i mention the surf directory to this command..... 
 > > 
 > > i checked on freesurfer mail archive, but no info since 2009 about any update on this command..... 
 > > 
 > > may someone please give an info if anyone ever used this command 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > thanks 
 > > kk 
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