It looks entirely as expected to me. The streaky bit at the top is the code trying to fill in some unknown values, as this part of the image is missing in the original fMRI data. See the various other posts on the mailing list (eg by Christian Buchel), which recommend generating a suitable mask for the statistical analysis. Best regards, -John On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 17:45 +0100, Waiter, Dr Gordon D. wrote: > I'm having some problems when using DARTEL to normalise EPI data to a study specific template, see attached screen grab. > > The main steps I've used are: > > 1) Create a study specific template from the T1w structural scans > > 2) Co-register the individual T1w's to a mean functional scan > > 3) Segment the co-registered T1w > > 4) Run DARTEL "use existing template" to create a flow field > > 5) Run DARTEL "Normalise to MNI", without template to apply flow field to functional data. > > The templates, imported partitions, flow fields and co-registered images all look fine. > > The template was generated before the latest update to SPM8 was released. > > Thanks in advance, > > Gordon > > Gordon D. Waiter PhD CSci MIPEM CPhys MInstP Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre Division of Applied Medicine University of Aberdeen Research MRI Centre Lilian Sutton Building Foresterhill Aberdeen > AB25 2ZD > > Tel: +44 (0)1224 559725 > Fax: +44 (0)1224 559718 > > [log in to unmask] > www.abdn.ac.uk/clsm/imaging > > > > The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. -- John Ashburner <[log in to unmask]>