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Thanks Stamatios,

The one 4D diffusion-weighted volume that needs to be reoriented,  needs be
virtually flipped over the x-axis.
I used s11.nii.gz  x y -z  s11.nii


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:10 AM, Stamatios Sotiropoulos <
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> Hi Charlie
>
> You can use fslswapdim to reorient the data and reverse a certain axis.
> You then need to swap the sign in the respective coordinate of the bvecs
> vectors. An easy way to double check things have worked out correctly is to
> run dtifit, have a look at dti_V1 through fslview and make sure that the
> fibre orientations (e.g. in the corpus callosum) make sense within all
> planes.
>
> Cheers
> Stam
>
>
> On 26 Jan 2014, at 18:03, charlie Leger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Preprocessing for a TBSS asymmetries test revealed one participant's
> diffusion data has a different orientation (reversed). I assume that,
> unlike anatomical T1 scans,  diffusion-weighted data  can't be corrected at
> the outset (e.g.  dcm2nii -r  y file.nii) because the diffusion
>  directional information would not change in tandem with the newly
> reoriented image, which would disrupt directional information (e.g. FA). Is
> this correct or can this participants diffusion data set reoriented to be
> consistent with the other diffusion-weighted data sets.
> >
> > Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Charlie
>