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Hi Jesper,

Could you email me the app for calculating directions as well? Thanks a lot!

Qiuting


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Jesper Andersson <
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> Hi again,
>
> >
> > Imagined you would checked it for high-bvalues. Are there any lower
> > SNR-levels to be above though?
>
> Well, with a b of 10000 there isn't much signal left, and that seems to
> work. Eddy uses all the info in all the voxels to estimate a few handfuls
> of parameters, unlike for example bedpost that try to do it on a
> voxel-by-voxel basis. Therefore I reckon any data that has a good enough
> SNR to be useful, eddy will deal with.
>
> >
> > Is there anything one should think of when generating a gradient
> > scheme to make a good sampling? The half-sphere scheme on your website
> > (http://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/fslwiki/EDDY) looks very uniform.
>
> The more uniformly you can sample, the better. Note that we do NOT
> recommend the half sphere scheme though. If you are on Mac I can send you a
> little app for calculating directions?
>
> >
> > I will pilot the twice-refocusing to see, but it would be tempting to
> > shorten the TE as we have strong gradients and would be able to get in
> > the weighting without needed to separate diffusion gradients too much.
>
> That was the thinking in the HCP.
>
> Is that really your address? Will we be seeing cheap flatpack MR scanners
> from IKEA soon? :-)
>
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