Hello,
yes, I would believe that the reviewer is correct. If you search the
list archives for "AC-PC", "manual reorientation" or "coregistration
with template" then you will find many threads detailing how this is
usually done, and why it is recommended.
Cheers
Marko
Ericbarnhill schrieb:
> I work in an experimental form of neuroimaging that, for this study,
> only produces 30mm slabs of central brain. Given that context, I think
> the SPM normalization works awfully well, but not every time. Now the
> paper is in revision and a reviewer writes:
>
> "The normalization failure rate is high, which is noted by the authors.
> At least some of the failures may be corrected by manually adjusting the
> position of the data (in the image header) so that it starts from a
> position that is already close to that of the MNI template."
>
> Is this true? I believe SPM starts with an affine transform, would this
> be improved by a previous manual rigid-body transformation?
>
> Eric Barnhill PhD
> Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
>
> Sent from ProtonMail <https://protonmail.ch>, encrypted email based in
> Switzerland.
>
>
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