One more thing to keep in mind, when you flip a surface's coordinates, the
normals will point inward rather than outward, so you may want to also
reorient the topology to have the normals outward
(-surface-topology-fix-orientation looks like the right command).

Tim

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Colin Reveley <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jet lagged though i am it is clear that any image is trivially flippable.
> so that's solved short term, sorry.
>
> in the long term, it is definitely best to change all my caret data to the
> correct hemispheric designation and orientation. but I think it's not hard:
>
> flip surfaces in y with a transform. flip and project and resample
> borders. just fslswapdim volumes (ACPC is unchanged). rename the structure
> in surface headers. leave metric, paint etc alone. they are just vectors.
> rename all the files. update/create spec. done. I think.
>
> unless the surfaces or anything else need further header changes. they
> don't look like they do.
>
> other things probably easiest to just backup and do again as needed.
> registration related stuff, whatever else.
>
> but that should flip the surfaces and volumes, preserve the important data
> (metrics, to a lesser extent borders, paints, rois), and everything should
> work smoothly and be in the right place.
>
> I do actually need to do this. At least for some of them. it turns out
> that while the caret data is correct, the actual brain is the wrong way
> round and it's not something called "rigorous" to flip histological data.
> whatever. talk to the hand.
>
> I hope it's that easy as above. I think it hopefully is.
>
> best,
>
>
> Colin
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