On Oct 26, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Glasser, Matthew
glass...@wusm.wustl.edumailto:glass...@wusm.wustl.edu wrote:
That note in the pipeline example code was put there because I donąt know
how to tell what readout direction was used from the DICOMs and z seems to
be the Siemens default. If someone else does, I’d be interested in what
field(s) they used.
It may take some deductive work. Mike Harms once figured out the phase encoding
direction from the DICOM header. We just need to find the corresponding code of
slice direction in the DICOM header. The one left is the readout direction.
However, to be completely sure about the sign would be tough or might be
impossible from the DICOM header alone.
Gordon, I’d be a bit surprised here if the shim mattered given how small
the correction is already and the fact that the bulk of the correction is
likely to be the same from one shim to another.
I agree that the bulk of the correction is not likely to change between
re-shims. However, I assume the main reason to do readout distortion correction
is for regions close to sinuses, where local fields could vary substantially
between re-shims with global (whole brain) optimization.
I don’t think it’s likely
to be made worse by reshiming, just won’t be quite as precise of a
correction.
I agree that no matter what it is a “small” effect. However I don’t completely
agree it can’t be made worse by a wrong fieldmap due to re-shimming. I think we
can do an experiment of: Fieldmap - Structural - re-shim - wrong Fieldmap, to
evaluate.
Gordon
Peace,
Matt.
On 10/24/14, 10:33 PM, Xu, Junqian
junqian...@mssm.edumailto:junqian...@mssm.edu wrote:
As for importance, it depends on your application but readout distortion
is typically quite small. Btw, weąve observed that the scanner
re-shimming often happens between the fieldmap and the structural scans
if the scanner operator is not well-educated for the importance of
preventing re-shimming. In such cases, I think it is better to disable
the readout distortion correction in the PreFreeSurferPipeline.
Gordon
On Oct 24, 2014, at 11:18 PM, Xu, Junqian
junqian...@mssm.edumailto:junqian...@mssm.edu wrote:
'Unwarp Dirą should correspond to the Readout (frequency encoding)
direction for the ŚPreFreeSurferPipeline', in which case is the Z
direction (Head - Foot) for the sagittal T1w/T2w HCP structural
acquisitions. Not sure what you mean by The only comment is that z
appears best.˛ Below is whatąs in PreFreeSurfer/PreFreeSurferPipeline.sh
--unwarpdir={x, y, z} Readout direction of the T1w and T2w
images
(Used with either a regular
field map or a spin
echo field map)
On Oct 24, 2014, at 8:28 PM, Micah Chambers
micahc...@gmail.commailto:micahc...@gmail.com
wrote:
Could anyone provide a better explanation of the importance of Unwarp
Dir in the example file 'PreFreeSurferPipelineBatch.sh'? The only
comment is that z appears best. It seems like direction of warping
should be a known value, is that not the case.
I don't know if this is related, but I have been testing the scripts
with HCP subject 901038 and I am finding that the outputs do not match
up. There is a slight tilt to the head. While not a big issue (the
brain is still labeled correctly), it makes validation of scripts
harder. Has anyone else had such an issue? I have included screenshots
(ours.png is our local version, hcp.png is the downloaded version).
Note that this came from '901038_3T_Structural_preproc.zip' and was
downloaded about a month ago.
Thanks
-MIcah
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