[Mne_analysis] shift in freeview

[Daniel G Wakeman]

Dear Alexander,

This question is probably better off answered on the freesurfer list than the MNE list, since it is a freesurfer question (mne_watershed_bem simply uses freesurfer to generate the surfaces (as described in the manual)). My suspicion is that freeview (which I believe is still in beta), is utilizing the nifti origin, while by default freesurfer calculates surfaces with it's own origin (http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/CoordinateSystems). 

If you only care about the visualization, the easy thing to do would be to 

first find out what coordinate frame it does use
second read in the surfaces in matlab (for example) and perform the translation (plus any rotations if necessary, though it doesn't appear as though that is).
Save these new surfaces under different names (so as not to cause problems with your MNE calculations). e.g. inner_skull.freeview
Then use these for visualization.

D
On 2010 Nov 11, at 02:08 , Alexander Hunold wrote:

> Dear experts,
> 
> 
> 
> I am perplexed how to fix the problem which is shown in the pictures.
> The volume is the T1.mgz. The surfaces are computed by MNE (red -
> inner_skull, yellow - outer_skull, green - outer_skin). In TkMedit the inner
> and outer skull are aligned to the T1.mgz, respectively.
> 
> I used <mne_watershed_bem> and <mne_setup_forward_model> to get the
> surfaces.
> 
> I get the same shift with all surfaces I compute with mne_write_surface, as
> well.
> 
> Since I would like to visualize 3-4 surfaces with a mri volume I would like
> to use freeview instead of TkMedit.
> 
> Do you have any hint how to fix that shift problem?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks so much,
> Alexander
> 
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