Hi guys - if the brain is centred on isocentre the gradwarp on a Skyra should 
be about 1-2mm max within the brain.
Cheers, Steve.




On 16 Oct 2014, at 16:16, Harms, Michael <mha...@wustl.edu> wrote:

> 
> In that case, I don't know what the degree of gradient nonlinearity is for a 
> stock Skyra.  But I'd try to get the gradient nonlinearity correction working 
> nonetheless.  You might have to do some more sleuthing to narrow down where 
> the error is arising before someone here can attempt to assist you.
> 
> Namely, which image is this referring to?
> Image Exception : #22 :: ERROR: Could not open image 
> 
> 
> cheers,
> -MH
> 
> -- 
> Michael Harms, Ph.D.
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> Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders
> Washington University School of Medicine
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> 660 South Euclid Ave.  Tel: 314-747-6173
> St. Louis, MO  63110  Email: mha...@wustl.edu
> 
> From: <Book>, Gregory <gregory.b...@hhchealth.org>
> Date: Thursday, October 16, 2014 10:11 AM
> To: "Harms, Michael" <mha...@wustl.edu>, "hcp-users@humanconnectome.org" 
> <hcp-users@humanconnectome.org>
> Subject: RE: [HCP-Users] gradient unwarp in preFS script
> 
> I’m processing our own raw data, collected on our stock Skyra. Our data was 
> collected using the HCP sequence recommendation.
> -G
>  
> From: Harms, Michael [mailto:mha...@wustl.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 11:08 AM
> To: Book, Gregory; hcp-users@humanconnectome.org
> Subject: Re: [HCP-Users] gradient unwarp in preFS script
>  
>  
> Hi Greg,
> Are you trying to re-process the HCP "unprocessed" data through the HCP 
> pipelines?  If so, the grad coefficients from a "stock" Skyra scanner will 
> not be the correct ones for the HCP Connectom scanner (which has a completely 
> different, customized gradient set, from a stock Skyra).
>  
> In general, we recommend applying the gradient unwarping, as it can only help 
> bring everything into true alignment.  That said, the gradient nonlinearities 
> are a particular issue for the Connectom scanner, and would be less of an 
> issue for say a Trio.
>  
> cheers,
> -MH
>  
> -- 
> Michael Harms, Ph.D.
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders
> Washington University School of Medicine
> Department of Psychiatry, Box 8134
> 660 South Euclid Ave. Tel: 314-747-6173
> St. Louis, MO  63110 Email: mha...@wustl.edu
>  
> From: <Book>, Gregory <gregory.b...@hhchealth.org>
> Date: Thursday, October 16, 2014 10:00 AM
> To: "hcp-users@humanconnectome.org" <hcp-users@humanconnectome.org>
> Subject: [HCP-Users] gradient unwarp in preFS script
>  
> I’m continuing to fine-tune our preFS script for our data, and I’m running 
> into trouble with the gradient unwarping step. I’ve obtained the .grad file 
> from our Skyra scanner and running the HCP with it. It runs the gradient 
> unwarp step, but seems to fail right after. If I set the 
> GradientDistortionCoeffs variable in the script to “NONE”, the entire script 
> runs without error.
>  
> I’m also wondering if this gradient unwarping step is necessary?
>  
>  
>  
> Here is the output from the console:
>  
> gradunwarp-INFO: Parsing /opt/HCP/coeff_AS098.grad for harmonics coeffs
> gradunwarp-INFO: Evaluating spherical harmonics
> gradunwarp-INFO: on a 60^3 grid
> gradunwarp-INFO: with extents -300.0mm to 300.0mm
> gradunwarp-INFO: along x...
> gradunwarp-INFO: along y...
> gradunwarp-INFO: along z...
> gradunwarp-INFO: Evaluating the jacobian multiplier
> gradunwarp-INFO: Unwarping slice by slice
> gradunwarp-INFO: Writing output to trilinear.nii.gz
> Image Exception : #22 :: ERROR: Could not open image 
> /home/pipeline/onrc/data/pipeline/S5452FGE/4/HCPStructural/analysis/T1w/T1w1_GradientDistortionUnwarp/fullWarp_abs
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'RBD_COMMON::BaseException'
> /opt/HCP/HCP/global/scripts/GradientDistortionUnwarp.sh: line 92: 11237 
> Aborted                 (core dumped) ${FSLDIR}/bin/convertwarp --abs 
> --ref=$WD/trilinear.nii.gz --warp1=$WD/fullWarp_abs.nii.gz --relout 
> --out=$OutputTransform
>  
> And the output from the log file:
> START: GradientDistortionUnwarp
> . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . . 20 . . . . . . . . . 30 . . . . . . . 
> . . 40 . . . . . . . . . 50 . . . . . . . . . 60 . . . . . . . . . 70 . . . . 
> . . . . . 80 . . . . . . . . . 90 . . . . . . . . . 100 . . . . . . . . . 110 
> . . . . . . . . . 120 . . . . . . . . . 130 . . . . . . . . . 140 . . . . . . 
> . . . 150 . . . . . . . . . 160 . . . . . . . . . 170 . . . . . . . . . 180 . 
> . . . . . . . . 190 . . . . . . . . . 200 . . . . . . . . . 210 . . . . . . . 
> . . 220 . . . . . . . . . 230 . . . . . . . . . 240 . . . . . . . . . 250 . . 
> . . . . . . . 260 . . . . . . . . . 270 . . . . . . . . . 280 . . . . . . . . 
> . 290 . . . . . . . . . 300 . . . . . . . . . 310 . . . . . . . . . 320
> set -- --path=/home/pipeline/onrc/data/pipeline/S5452FGE/4/HCPStructural      
>  --subject=analysis       
> --t1=/home/pipeline/onrc/data/pipeline/S5452FGE/4/HCPStructural/analysis/unprocessed/3T/T1w_MPR1/analysis_3T_T1w_MPR1.nii.gz@
>        
> --t2=/home/pipeline/onrc/data/pipeline/S5452FGE/4/HCPStructural/analysis/unprocessed/3T/T2w_SPC1/analysis_3T_T2w_SPC1.nii.gz@
>        --t1template=/opt/HCP/HCP/global/templates/MNI152_T1_0.7mm.nii.gz      
>  --t1templatebrain=/opt/HCP/HCP/global/templates/MNI152_T1_0.7mm_brain.nii.gz 
>       --t1template2mm=/opt/HCP/HCP/global/templates/MNI152_T1_2mm.nii.gz      
>  --t2template=/opt/HCP/HCP/global/templates/MNI152_T2_0.7mm.nii.gz       
> --t2templatebrain=/opt/HCP/HCP/global/templates/MNI152_T2_0.7mm_brain.nii.gz  
>      --t2template2mm=/opt/HCP/HCP/global/templates/MNI152_T2_2mm.nii.gz       
> --templatemask=/opt/HCP/HCP/global/templates/MNI152_T1_0.7mm_brain_mask.nii.gz
>        
> --template2mmmask=/opt/HCP/HCP/global/templates/MNI152_T1_2mm_brain_mask_dil.nii.gz
>        --brainsize=150       
> --fnirtconfig=/opt/HCP/HCP/global/config/T1_2_MNI152_2mm.cnf       
> --fmapmag=/home/pipeline/onrc/data/pipeline/S5452FGE/4/HCPStructural/analysis/unprocessed/3T/T1w_MPR1/analysis_3T_FieldMap_Magnitude.nii.gz
>        
> --fmapphase=/home/pipeline/onrc/data/pipeline/S5452FGE/4/HCPStructural/analysis/unprocessed/3T/T1w_MPR1/analysis_3T_FieldMap_Phase.nii.gz
>        --echodiff=2.46       --SEPhaseNeg=NONE       --SEPhasePos=NONE       
> --echospacing=NONE       --seunwarpdir=NONE \    
>       --t1samplespacing=0.0000065       --t2samplespacing=0.0000023       
> --unwarpdir=z       --gdcoeffs=/opt/HCP/coeff_AS098.grad       
> --avgrdcmethod=FIELDMAP       --topupconfig=NONE       --printcom=
> . /opt/HCP/HCP/Examples/Scripts/SetUpHCPPipeline.sh
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