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Hiya - There are no constraints in dtifit to ensure positive eigenvalues
in the diffusion tensor hence you can get FA >1 . The number of voxels in
which you see this, will depend on the noise in your data..

Cheers

T


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Tim Behrens
Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain
The John Radcliffe Hospital
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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Ruiwang Huang wrote:

> Dear Tim
>
> Re-checking the bvecs, I found one gradient direction was not
> normalized. After correcting the bvecs, the DTIFIt is ok now.
>
> But FA values for some pixels seems larger than one?
>
> Thanks again for your help
>
> rhuang
>
> On Sunday 31 October 2004 18:17, you wrote:
> > Hi there -
> > We are aware of this problem. These "errors" are not really errors - they
> > are the standard output of eddy_correct. They are just being reported as
> > errors by the GUI - we will fix this for the next release. For now, just
> > ignore them - The output files of eddy_correct will be fine.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > T
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >---- Tim Behrens
> > Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain
> > The John Radcliffe Hospital
> > Headley Way Oxford OX3 9DU
> > Oxford University
> > Work 01865 222782
> > Mobile 07980 884537
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >----
> >
> > On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, R Huang wrote:
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I have got error message when I running eddy current corrections.
> > >
> > > The diffusion-weighted data were converted
> > > into 4D analsyse format using mricro, 1+12 volumes
> > > with one b=0 and 12b=1000. I tried 3 times
> > > running 'eddy-current correction'. Every time,
> > > a popup window reported the following error message:
> > >
> > >  Errors: Writing vol0000
> > >     Writing vol0001
> > >     Writing vol0002
> > >     Writing vol0003
> > >
> > >     ...
> > >     Writing vol0012
> > >
> > > Two files, (data.nii.gz) and (gata.ecclog)
> > > were created.
> > >
> > >
> > > Any suggestions for using 'eddy current correction'?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > >
> > > rhuang
>