In general that information that you have seen is correct; there is
not enough information in the functional data to drive generic
nonlinear registration to a structural. This is why we haven't
provided a FNIRT config file for this.
Cheers, Steve.
On 18 Aug 2008, at 15:48, Jason Stein wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone come up with a config file for fnirt that gives optimal
> settings for registering a structural T1 scan to a functional scan
> with distortion (no fieldmaps were acquired)? Also I saw this
> sentence on the webpage: "Let us e.g. say that you have some
> functional data func.nii and some structrural data struct.nii for
> the same subject. What you ultimately want is to have your
> structural data in the MNI152 space, but you realise that there is
> probably too little structure in the functional scan to drive a non-
> linear registration." So is it even possible to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
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