Thank you for your response. We do not have a pair of SE-EPI b0s (in opposite directions) so I guess I can only use eddy without topup.
Best,Mahmoud
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Jesper Andersson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear Mahmoud,
you don’t need opposing PE for the dwi:s. As long as you have at least a pair of SE-EPI (i.e. b0:s) you can run topup on those and feed that into eddy together with your single PE dwi:s.
Even if you don’t have a SE-EPI pair you can still run eddy without the topup output. In that case eddy will still correct for eddy currents, subject movement and outliers, but the susceptibility distortions will not be corrected.
I cannot remember of the current release allows you to feed a “traditional” fieldmap into eddy. If not it will be part of a soon to be released “patch” of eddy.
Jesper
On 21 Apr 2017, at 06:10, Mahmoud <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Thanks Matt!Is it also possible to use topup+eddy when there is no opposite PE for DWI? if yes, could you point out how?
Thank you,Mahmoud
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Matt Glasser <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
As long as the whole brain is covered you can still use them. Fugue can be used for this purpose and there are multiple postings in the archives detailing the commands.
Peace,
Matt.
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Date: Friday, April 21, 2017 at 7:59 AM
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Subject: [FSL] DWI susceptibility correction using B0 GRE field map
Hello All,
In thePNC dataset (DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.07.0 64 ) the B0 field maps have been collected primarily for fMRI and with different slice thickness and matrix size (in-plane resolution) than DWI.
I wonder under what condition we can use the B0 field maps to correct susceptibility distortion of DWI.Can someone please say what are the appropriate steps?
Thank you!Mahmoud