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Thanks, good point Saad. Grade 10 math!

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Saad Jbabdi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> you can do the raising using fslmaths and the fact that x^a = exp(a*log(x))
> make sure the numbers stay in a reasonable range though.
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> On 9 Dec 2010, at 16:56, Graeme Schwindt wrote:
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> Hi Thomas,
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> The EAR equation requires raising images to the the value of a constant,
> 1.6075...
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> I'm using Jimmy Shen's NIFTI toolbox  (
> http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/8797-tools-for-nifti-and-analyze-image)
> to load the eigenvalue images in, perform the element-by-element arithmetic,
> and write it out. FSLview will display the resulting images fine, but any
> attempt to register them, or even downsample them using an identity
> transformation produces an empty result...
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> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Thomas Ballinger <
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>> You could certainly multiply repeatedly with fslmaths - I don't know the
>> formula for EAR, but if it's so complicated that you need an command that
>> takes an arbitrary power of each voxel of an image, we could write a wrapper
>> for fslmath calls that does this.
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>> I would also be curious about the registration problems, no suggestions
>> there.  What Matlab library are you using to write the output nii file?
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>> Thomas Ballinger
>> RA at PNL at BWH
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>> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:13 AM, SUBSCRIBE SPM Anonymous <
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>>> Hi everyone,
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>>> I'm also attempting to calculate this EAR value, but it appears fslmaths
>>> does not have a 'power' option to raise an image to an arbitrary power,
>>> aside from squaring the image. Am I missing something?
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>>> I've written a script in matlab to perform the operation, but while fsl
>>> will display the resulting NIFTI images, after any registration attempts it
>>> creates a volume with all 0's.
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>>> Would be curious if anyone has successfully calculated these images and
>>> analysed them with tbss_non_FA.
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>>> Thanks,
>>> Graeme
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