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The order matters in this case.  Did you try putting the "-odt char"
portion at the END of the command, as indicated by the Usage statement
of fslmaths?  

ie.
fslmaths zstat1.nii.gz -uthr -2.3 zstat_deact -odt char

cheers,
-MH

On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 16:27 -0400, Leslie Engineering wrote:
> I'm sorry, I spoke to soon. I did all my activation masks. That worked
> fine. But, I must have the syntax wrong for deactivation. This is what
> I tried:
> 
> 
> fslmaths zstat1.nii.gz -uthr -2.3 -odt char zstat_deact*
> 
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? I can't find a usage explanation for -odt
> other than Usage: fslmaths [-dt <datatype>] <first_input> [operations
> and inputs] <output> [-odt <datatype>]
>  which I thought I did?
> Thanks
> 
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Leslie Engineering
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>         Worked! Thanks so much!
>         
>         
>         On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:47 PM, wolf zinke <[log in to unmask]
>         bremen.de> wrote:
>                 Hi,
>                 
>                 If you refer to positive z-values as activations, and
>                 negative values as deactivations, you can do this with
>                 fslmaths (assuming a z-threshold of 2.3)
>                 
>                 fslmaths zstat1.nii.gz  -thr   2.3 zstat1_activation
>                 fslmaths zstat1.nii.gz -uthr -2.3 zstat1_deactivation
>                 
>                 Use the -bin option and -odt char, if your output
>                 should be a binary mask.
>                 
>                 good luck,
>                 wolf
>                 
>                 
>                         I have a zstat1.nii.gz from a group Feat
>                         analysis. It contains regions of activation
>                         and deactivation. How do I separate the two or
>                         make masks for each region?
>                         
>                         Thanks so much!
>         
>         
> 
>