Hi Colin, thanks a lot!
Best
Pablo


2013/7/8 Colin Reveley <[email protected]>

>  What you should do is:
>
>  extract F99 from the skull. extract the MNI atlas from the skull.
>
>  alternatively, you might get good results by putting both the MNI and
> F99 image into ACPC and cropping them so that the non-brain material is
> nearly the same. but you might not.
>
>  it's best to brain extract them. I can give you this if you need it. I'm
> not sure where by extracted MNI is but I do have one.
>
>  applying SUSAN noise reduction to F99 is a good idea.
>
>  you can then apply registration software to F99. And you can apply
> transforms to caret paint volumes that you've made by using caret's
> function to make paint volumes from paint columns. It is not perfect to the
> actual cortical thickness of course but you can play with the parameters.
>
>  I doubt linear registration is going to do the trick.
>
>  You might find that using fnirt is quite hard and slow.
>
>  You might ask the mni people.
>
>  You might try this. This will work. This is ours actually. you will need
> an NVIDIA GPU that is less than 3 years old and is meant for science or
> intensive computer games.
>
>  http://www.bss.phy.cam.ac.uk/~ag492/ezys/
>
>  I never did manage to get the mni labelling to be of actual use. maybe
> that has changed.
>
>  but you can put paint data from caret into mni like this.
>
>  good luck. Let me know if I can help. I've done a lot of this.
>
>  you can generate the equvalent of the attached images.
>
>  actually it would be interesting to compare the paxinos labels on MNI
> made this way, and made the way they did it.
>
>  with perseverance you can do more less anything you need. Our software
> does help, if you have the appropriate hardware.
>
>  you could also try to make a surface from the MNI data (so downsample to
> 0.5mm). you will need to pre-process it a lot with FAST or nu_correct or
> both. it might not work.
>
>  then you can try surface registration methods.
>
>  best,
>
>  Colin
>
>
> On 8 July 2013 18:00, <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>    1. F99 to MNI (Pablo Barttfeld)
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>>    4. Re: F99 to MNI (Pablo Barttfeld)
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Pablo Barttfeld <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Cc:
>> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 11:37:35 +0200
>> Subject: [caret-users] F99 to MNI
>>  Hi all,
>>  I would like to map the regions in F99 into MNI space, is there a
>> function in Caret to do that?
>>  Best
>> Pablo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Donna Dierker <[email protected]>
>> To: "Caret, SureFit, and SuMS software users" <
>> [email protected]>
>> Cc:
>> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 08:54:25 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [caret-users] F99 to MNI
>> I'm pretty sure you're the first person to ask that question.  Or at
>> least the first I've heard it.
>>
>> Obviously the macaque and human brains have different scales, but it
>> might, in principle, be possible.  Computing a volumetric transform from
>> the F99 individual monkey volume to either MNI305 or avg152T1 mean human
>> atlases doesn't seem likely to work well.
>>
>> But I think David registered the F99 surface to the same 73730 mesh as
>> the PALS human atlas.  (He had a good reason for doing so.)  If that is in
>> the Sept 2006 tutorial dataset, then you could load the F99 paint areas on
>> the PALS atlas and use Attributes: Paint to project them from surface-land
>> to volume-land, using the PALS flirt, SPM, or MRITOTAL surface as the
>> mapping substrate.
>>
>> Hopefully David will chime in if the F99-to-PALS correspondence makes
>> this a bad idea.
>>
>> (Let's face it:  We must always approach cross-species registration with
>> a long list of caveats.)
>>
>>
>> On Jul 8, 2013, at 4:37 AM, Pablo Barttfeld <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> > I would like to map the regions in F99 into MNI space, is there a
>> function in Caret to do that?
>> > Best
>> > Pablo
>> >
>> >
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Matt Glasser <[email protected]>
>> To: "Caret, SureFit, and SuMS software users" <
>> [email protected]>
>> Cc:
>> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 09:53:44 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [caret-users] F99 to MNI
>> I cannot imagine being able to do this well with volumetric registration.
>>
>> Matt.
>>
>> On 7/8/13 8:54 AM, "Donna Dierker" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >I'm pretty sure you're the first person to ask that question.  Or at
>> >least the first I've heard it.
>> >
>> >Obviously the macaque and human brains have different scales, but it
>> >might, in principle, be possible.  Computing a volumetric transform from
>> >the F99 individual monkey volume to either MNI305 or avg152T1 mean human
>> >atlases doesn't seem likely to work well.
>> >
>> >But I think David registered the F99 surface to the same 73730 mesh as
>> >the PALS human atlas.  (He had a good reason for doing so.)  If that is
>> >in the Sept 2006 tutorial dataset, then you could load the F99 paint
>> >areas on the PALS atlas and use Attributes: Paint to project them from
>> >surface-land to volume-land, using the PALS flirt, SPM, or MRITOTAL
>> >surface as the mapping substrate.
>> >
>> >Hopefully David will chime in if the F99-to-PALS correspondence makes
>> >this a bad idea.
>> >
>> >(Let's face it:  We must always approach cross-species registration with
>> >a long list of caveats.)
>> >
>> >
>> >On Jul 8, 2013, at 4:37 AM, Pablo Barttfeld <[email protected]>
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi all,
>> >> I would like to map the regions in F99 into MNI space, is there a
>> >>function in Caret to do that?
>> >> Best
>> >> Pablo
>> >>
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Pablo Barttfeld <[email protected]>
>> To: "Caret, SureFit, and SuMS software users" <
>> [email protected]>
>> Cc:
>> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 16:01:55 +0200
>> Subject: Re: [caret-users] F99 to MNI
>>  Hi Donna, thanks for your response.
>>  Sorry I was not clear enough, I meant the macaque MNI space, not the
>> human MNI.
>> thanks a lot
>> Pablo
>>
>>
>> 2013/7/8 Donna Dierker <[email protected]>
>>
>>> I'm pretty sure you're the first person to ask that question.  Or at
>>> least the first I've heard it.
>>>
>>> Obviously the macaque and human brains have different scales, but it
>>> might, in principle, be possible.  Computing a volumetric transform from
>>> the F99 individual monkey volume to either MNI305 or avg152T1 mean human
>>> atlases doesn't seem likely to work well.
>>>
>>> But I think David registered the F99 surface to the same 73730 mesh as
>>> the PALS human atlas.  (He had a good reason for doing so.)  If that is in
>>> the Sept 2006 tutorial dataset, then you could load the F99 paint areas on
>>> the PALS atlas and use Attributes: Paint to project them from surface-land
>>> to volume-land, using the PALS flirt, SPM, or MRITOTAL surface as the
>>> mapping substrate.
>>>
>>> Hopefully David will chime in if the F99-to-PALS correspondence makes
>>> this a bad idea.
>>>
>>> (Let's face it:  We must always approach cross-species registration with
>>> a long list of caveats.)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 8, 2013, at 4:37 AM, Pablo Barttfeld <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi all,
>>> > I would like to map the regions in F99 into MNI space, is there a
>>> function in Caret to do that?
>>> > Best
>>> > Pablo
>>> >
>>> >
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>> From: Donna Dierker <[email protected]>
>> To: "Caret, SureFit, and SuMS software users" <
>> [email protected]>
>> Cc:
>> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 10:28:52 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [caret-users] F99 to MNI
>> Hi Pablo,
>>
>> Sorry -- this is the first I have heard of it.  Pretty cool:
>>
>> http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesAtlases/Macaque
>>
>> If someone has registered the F99 atlas to this one, I am unaware of it
>> (just as I was unaware of the MNI macaque atlas until you educated me).
>>
>> Donald McLaren registered his 112RM atlas to F99; that's here:
>>
>> MCLAREN_EtAl_2009
>> http://sumsdb.wustl.edu/sums/directory.do?id=6716882
>>
>> Donna
>>
>>
>> On Jul 8, 2013, at 9:01 AM, Pablo Barttfeld <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Donna, thanks for your response.
>> > Sorry I was not clear enough, I meant the macaque MNI space, not the
>> human MNI.
>> > thanks a lot
>> > Pablo
>> >
>> >
>> > 2013/7/8 Donna Dierker <[email protected]>
>> > I'm pretty sure you're the first person to ask that question.  Or at
>> least the first I've heard it.
>> >
>> > Obviously the macaque and human brains have different scales, but it
>> might, in principle, be possible.  Computing a volumetric transform from
>> the F99 individual monkey volume to either MNI305 or avg152T1 mean human
>> atlases doesn't seem likely to work well.
>> >
>> > But I think David registered the F99 surface to the same 73730 mesh as
>> the PALS human atlas.  (He had a good reason for doing so.)  If that is in
>> the Sept 2006 tutorial dataset, then you could load the F99 paint areas on
>> the PALS atlas and use Attributes: Paint to project them from surface-land
>> to volume-land, using the PALS flirt, SPM, or MRITOTAL surface as the
>> mapping substrate.
>> >
>> > Hopefully David will chime in if the F99-to-PALS correspondence makes
>> this a bad idea.
>> >
>> > (Let's face it:  We must always approach cross-species registration
>> with a long list of caveats.)
>> >
>> >
>> > On Jul 8, 2013, at 4:37 AM, Pablo Barttfeld <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi all,
>> > > I would like to map the regions in F99 into MNI space, is there a
>> function in Caret to do that?
>> > > Best
>> > > Pablo
>> > >
>> > >
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