Your brains actually get normalised to their own average shape, but
are then affine transformed to MNI space (because people like to
report their results in MNI space), which does not introduce any
further nonlinear warping.
Best regards,
-John
On 31 October 2011 19:19, Jordan Constance <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Good afternoon experts,
>
> I have a few questions regarding Dartel and pre-processing.
>
> 1) Does Dartel always put images into MNI space? Is this a disadvantage (or
> unnecessary) when using only pediatric brains?
> 2) Is there a way to normalize our brains to a pediatric template (that
> we're making) instead of to MNI space?
> 3) If we're not normalizing our brains to our template, when is the best
> place in pre-processing to introduce the template? Does this work with
> Dartel?
>
> I would greatly appreciate any assistance or clarification that anyone can
> provide.
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Jordan Constance, B.S.
> Graduate Research Assistant
> Child Clinical Psychology
> Southern Illinois University Carbondale
>
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