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Mark,
I can certainly wait until early next week and am
overjoyed that your group is working on it!!

Sincerely,
Marc

On 1/11/08, Mark Jenkinson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Dear Marc,
>
> Thanks for the files.
> I have figured out what the problem is.  The reason is related to the
> image resolution, as you guessed.  We currently do not compensate
> for large changes in voxel volume in tbss_deproject in the same way
> that flirt compensates in the affine case.  Consequently, it is easy for
> voxels in the 1mm^3 space to get missed out when doing the
> deprojection (as it only looks at one coordinate per voxel in the
> original space).
>
> We will work on a solution to this problem and get back to you
> soon.  A temporary solution is to backup your image containing
> the blobs of interest and substantially dilate those in the original
> file prior to running tbss_deproject.  Using a 3x3x7 kernel did the
> trick for me when I tried it.  You can do this with fslcreatehd and
> fslmaths.  However, we should have a better solution early next
> week if you can wait.
>
> All the best,
>         Mark
>
>
>
> On 2 Jan 2008, at 20:13, Marc J. Dubin wrote:
>
> > Mark,
> >
> > Thanks, This still is not resolved. I will upload the tarred images
> > in the
> > next 1-2 days.
> >
> > I really appreciate your help with this!!
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > On 1/2/08, Mark Jenkinson <[log in to unmask] > wrote:Hi,
> >
> > Is this resolved?
> > I doubt it is an issue of resolution, as you should get non-zero
> > partial volume still.  Also, if it works for some of these images
> > at this resolution, then it should work for all.
> >
> > If you are still having problems with this, please upload a tarred
> > set of images for one of the offending subjects and we'll have
> > a look.
> >
> > All the best,
> >         Mark
> >
> >
> > On 22 Dec 2007, at 13:03, Marc J. Dubin wrote:
> >
> > > I am using the default, which I believe is trilinear....
> > >
> > > Could it have something to do with the resolution of the
> > > native space images, which is 1.7x1.7x5mm?
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Marc
> > >
> > > On 12/22/07, Steve Smith <[log in to unmask] > wrote:Hi, this is
> > > probably because you are using the -n interpolation option.
> > > Have you tried without this option?
> > >
> > > Cheers, Steve
> > >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > --
> > > Stephen M. Smith,  Professor of Biomedical Engineering
> > > Associate Director,   Oxford University FMRIB Centre
> > >
> > > FMRIB, JR Hospital, Headington, Oxford  OX3 9DU, UK
> > > +44 (0) 1865 222726  (fax 222717)
> > > [log in to unmask]   http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~steve
> > >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > --
> > >
> > > On 21 Dec 2007, at 05:34, Marc Dubin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Dear FSL Users,
> > > >
> > > > I am using TBSS_deproject 3   to invert the TBSS from MNI space
> > back
> > > > to native space.
> > > > I create grot file from a 45 pixel blob in a tract of interest in
> > > > MNI152. TBSS_deproject 3
> > > > then runs without errors and looking at the native space images, I
> > > > am able to find the
> > > > inverted blob for most subjects, but there are several subjects in
> > > > which the blob is nowhere to
> > > > be found and in fact running fslstats on these native space images
> > > > reveals that in fact there
> > > > are no nonzero voxels.
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions on what might be going on with these subjects
> > would
> > > > be greatly appeciated.
> > > >
> > > > Sincerely,
> > > > Marc
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Marc Dubin, MD PhD
> > > Resident in Psychiatry - PGY4
> > > Weill Cornell Medical College
> > >
> > > 212-746-3764 (work), 646-831-8886 (cell)
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Marc Dubin, MD PhD
> > Resident in Psychiatry - PGY4
> > Weill Cornell Medical College
> >
> > 212-746-3764 (work), 646-831-8886 (cell)
>



-- 
Marc Dubin, MD PhD
Resident in Psychiatry - PGY4
Weill Cornell Medical College

212-746-3764 (work), 646-831-8886 (cell)