Hi, Also, can you confirm that a file named t1_blood exists in your current directory? It may just be as simple as a missing file error. Kind Regards Matthew -------------------------------- Dr Matthew Webster FMRIB Centre John Radcliffe Hospital University of Oxford > On 22 Aug 2017, at 16:42, Michael Chappell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > By the looks of it the `cat t1_blood` is not doing what you intend - it seems to be passing the string “cat t1_blood” into oxford_asl rather than reading in the value from the file. I am not quite sure what aspect of the shell that is causing this, but presumably if you manually put the relevant number on the command line it will run correctly - which might at least sanity check whether my diagnosis is correct. > > Michael > > >> On 22 Aug 2017, at 14:39, R. Duke <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: >> >> Hello Experts (Michael), >> >> I receive the following error when I run oxford_asl (oxford_asl -i ASL_10TI_diff_mcf.nii.gz -o Oxford_ASL --tis 0.25,0.5,0.75,1,1.25,1.5,1.75,2,2.25,2.5 --t1b `cat t1_blood` --spatial -m M0_mean_brain_mask.nii.gz) >> >> Any idea on how to resolve this error? >> >> cat: t1_blood: No such file or directory >> OXFORD_ASL - running >> Creating output directory >> Saving results in natve (ASL aquisition) space to Oxford_ASL/native_space >> Pre-processing >> Number of inversion times: 10 >> Number of timepoints in data: 10 >> Number of repeats in data: 1 >> 0.25 0.5 0.75 1 1.25 1.5 1.75 2 2.25 2.5 >> Setting up BASIL >> Calling BASIL on data >> Creating output directory: /tmp/fsl_CNHiDq_ox_asl/basil >> Model for analysis is: buxton >> Using bolus length: 1 >> STEP 1: VB (2 param: CBF and ^t) >> ------------------ >> Welcome to FABBER v2.0 >> Logfile started: /tmp/fsl_CNHiDq_ox_asl/basil/step1/logfile >> Start time: Tue Aug 22 09:20:35 2017 >> FABBER release v2.0 >> Invalid_option exception caught in fabber: >> >> >> An exception has been thrown >> Runtime error:- convertTo failed... couldn't convert string '--spatial' into a value. >> Trace: InferenceTechnique::Setup; VariationalBayesInferenceTechnique::Setup; FABBER main(); FABBER main (outer).\ >> >> Thank you > > --- > Michael Chappell MEng DPhil > W: http://www.ibme.ox.ac.uk/qubic <http://www.ibme.ox.ac.uk/qubic> > T: +44 1865 617657 > Associate Professor, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford. > http://www.ibme.ox.ac.uk <http://www.ibme.ox.ac.uk/> > Director of Training, EPSRC-MRC CDT in Biomedical Imaging > http://www.onbicdt.ox.ac.uk <http://www.onbicdt.ox.ac.uk/> > Governing Body Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford. > http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk <http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/> > Research Fellow, FMRIB Centre > http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk <http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/> > > > > >