Aha! That makes much more sense.
I was under the impression that streamlines terminate as soon as they reach a target. I take it that streamlines simply run to their full extent, and that the waytotal is increased for any target areas that it happens to touch? If a streamline passes through more than one voxel of the same target then is it counted as passing through that target more than once?
No, the waytotal number is the number of streamlines that were not rejected. It does not matter how many voxels a streamline crossed, it is only counted once, if at all counted, in the waytotal.
Lastly, is there a way to make streamlines terminate the moment they make contact with a target?
Yes, you can set your target masks as stopping masks.
Saad
Thank you, Saad.
Jackson
Hi
The "matrix_seeds_to_all_targets" output text file contains a matrix with as many rows as there were voxels in the seed mask, and as many columns as there were target masks. Running along one row of values should be the waytotal from one seed voxel to each target mask, in turn. Therefore, the sum across columns should always be less than or equal to the value given for "-P", the number of streamlines generated per voxel. Alternatively, the sum across rows should be the waytotal from the entire seed mask to each target mask.
No, that is only true if each streamline goes through only one or zero targets. If streamlines pass through more than two targets, then the sum across columns can be higher than waytotal.
Cheers,
Saad
However, I find that the sum across columns is sometimes greater than the value that I gave for "-P". Is there something I've misunderstood about what the values in "matrix_seeds_to_all_targets" mean?
Kind regards,
Jackson Smith
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Saad Jbabdi
University of Oxford, FMRIB Centre
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