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Jiansong
On Jan 20, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Andreas Bartsch wrote:

> Be aware that the two scans may actually have different diffusions  
> vectors applied to them (if these were specified XYZ and if you  
> angualted the slices).
> Cheers-
> Andreas
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: FSL - FMRIB's Software Library [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Im  
> Auftrag von Matt Glasser
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 20. Januar 2008 20:43
> An: [log in to unmask]
> Betreff: Re: [FSL] DTI-- mean of two runs
>
> The mean will have better SNR than the individual scans.  You could  
> do something like this to motion correct your data and get the mean:
> fslmerge -t big4d <data1> <data2>
> eddy_correct big4d big4d_corr 0
> fslroi big4d_corr av1_corr 0 <# of volumes in a single average>  
> fslroi big4d_corr av2_corr <# of volumes in a single average> <# of  
> volumes in a single average> fslmaths av1_corr -add av2_corr -div 2  
> <data>
>
> These commands merge the two averages into a single file for motion  
> correction, then split out the motion corrected averages, and then  
> get the mean.
>
> Peace,
>
> Matt.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: FSL - FMRIB's Software Library [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On  
> Behalf Of Jiansong Xu
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 2:31 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [FSL] DTI-- mean of two runs
>
> Dear Friends:
>
> I'm using FSL (FDT) to analyze DTI data acquired with a Simens Trio  
> 3 T scanner.  Each subject had two scans with same parameters.  My  
> question is:  is the mean image of the two scans better than either  
> one of the two scans? If so, how to get the mean of the two images?
>
> Best
>
> Jiansong