[Mne_analysis] mne_make_cor_set - transform problem
Matti Hamalainen
msh at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Mon Apr 18 12:00:26 EDT 2016
Hi Don,
In fact, the coordinate transformation between the scanner coordinates and surface RAS coordinates is in the file produced my mne_make_cor_set.
You can see this when you do
mne_show_fiff —verbose —tag 222 —in <filename>
To my understanding, it is only a displacement.
- Matti
> On Apr 18, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Krieger, Donald N. <kriegerd at upmc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Matti,
>
> Thanks for responding so quickly.
> I tried what you suggest for a scan for which I have dicoms.
> I created 2 .fif’s, one with dicom_access and one with mne_make_cor_set.
>
> Here are the two transforms grabbed with show_fiff:
> # dicom_access
> # 222 = transform head -> MRI
> # 0.999356 0.028735 -0.021495
> # -0.035189 0.902169 -0.429945
> # 0.007038 0.430425 0.902599
> # -4.798210 8.148447 -50.913933 (inv. 5.440169 14.701207 49.355110)
> # mne_make_cor_set
> # 222 = transform head -> MRI
> # 0.999505 0.024229 0.020096
> # -0.014078 0.915056 -0.403080
> # -0.028155 0.402598 0.914944
> # -3.010607 -9.352709 -35.697933 (inv. 1.872374 23.003098 28.952219)
>
> I guess the rotations look pretty much the same and if I apply the tkr2scanner transform to the displacement, -3.010607 -9.352709 -35.697933, I get
> -5.14 6.311 -52.083 which is also pretty good.
>
> That’s encouraging actually. Do you see any way to get it to kick out the correct displacements?
>
> Don
>
>
> From: mne_analysis-bounces at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu [mailto:mne_analysis-bounces at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Matti Hamalainen
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 11:36 AM
> To: Discussion and support forum for the users of MNE Software
> Subject: Re: [Mne_analysis] mne_make_cor_set - transform problem
>
>
> Hi Don,
>
> You can read the fif file mne_make_cor_set made in mrilab and do the coordinate transformation there as you have used to and produce a new fif file where the transformation is in place.
> This does not deal with the different coordinate systems between the one derived from the DICOM files and the mgz files, though.
>
> - Matti
>
>
> On Apr 18, 2016, at 11:31 AM, Krieger, Donald N. <kriegerd at upmc.edu <mailto:kriegerd at upmc.edu>> wrote:
>
> This is a follow-on to a previous post to which Jon Houck helpfully suggested using mne_make_cor_set.
> I am using this to convert .mgz files to .fif .
> I normally start with the original dicom set and convert them to .fif using ELEKTA’s dicom_access.
> But for these MEG data sets, I only have a defaced (via freesurfer) .mgz files.
>
> In either case I then use the .fif files to do MEG coregistration with ELEKTA’s Mrilab tool.
> Using Mrilab is part of my standard pipeline and I would like to stick with that if possible.
>
> When I convert a standard dicom scan series to fif using ELEKTA’s dicom_access, the .fif is in MR RAS coordinates.
> But a .fif file obtained by conversions from .mgz with mne_make_cor_set appears to be in tkr RAS coordinates instead.
> So the transform matrix that I get when I do the coregistration is: Head à tkrRAS rather than Head à RAS .
>
> I tried spoofing mne_make_cor_set with –talairach SomeOtherTransformation but Mrilab doesn’t appear to care.
> In addition, it’s not clear to me what transform to use even if it does work; maybe tkr2scanner .
>
> Any thoughts would be welcome and thanks.
>
> Best - Don
>
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