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Hello,

I am trying to do some voxel based analysis for gray matter mean
diffusivity.  Therefore. I need to register the mean diffusivity image to
the MNI template.  I tried the following for one subject, however, results
don't look good.

Here it is what I did

1. register the b0 to the mprage using flirt.  The b0 and MD images are in
the same space
2. register mprage to MNI using flirt
3. non linear registration, mprage to MNI using fnirt
4.  apply the parameters from 3 to the MD images

$FSLDIR/bin/flirt -in 5104_avgboraw.nii -ref 5104_mprage.nii -omat
flirtbompragemat_5104.mat -out flirt5104_bomprage

$FSLDIR/bin/flirt -in 5104_mprage.nii -ref
/usr/local/fsl-4.1.4/data/standard/MNI152_T1_1mm.nii.gz -omat
flirtmprageMNImat_5104.mat -out flirt5104_mprageMNI

$FSLDIR/bin/fnirt
--ref=/usr/local/fsl-4.1.4/data/standard/MNI152_T1_1mm.nii.gz
--in=flirt5104_mprageMNI.nii --iout=fnirt5104_mprageMNI
--cout=fnirtcout_5104 --fout=fnirtfout_5104 --jout=fnirtjout_5104
--intout=fnirtintout_5104 --logout=fnirtlogout_5104

$FSLDIR/bin/applywarp
--ref=/usr/local/fsl-4.1.4/data/standard/MNI152_T1_1mm.nii.gz
--in=5104_MD.nii --out=5104_MDinMNI --warp=fnirtcout_5104
--premat=flirtmprageMNImat_5104.mat

Is this approach correct?  Any suggestions?

Thank you,
Bedda