The best thing is to follow the instructions in recon-all -help.
recon-all will automatically use mri_motion_correct2. Basically, you
just need to put your two scans in mri/orig/001 and mri/orig/002.
However, if there is an artifact (as Ev suggests), then you'll have to
use just one of the scans.

doug


Margaret Duff wrote:
> 
> Hi,  Both images are from here on the old bay 2 scanner, they just
> occurred 1 month apart.  Could you describe a little for me how to use
> mri_motion_correct and how it differs from setup structural scans in
> csurf?  I checked the wiki, but it did not have tons of info.  Also, what
> are the major differences in using only one scan as opposed to two for the
> reconstruction?  Thanks for your help, Margaret
> 
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Bruce Fischl
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Margaret,
> >
> > what are you using to align them? If they are from different sites, then
> > they may not be possible to really align, due to differences in shims,
> > read-out directions and bandwidth. Reconning with a single image is
> > certainly doable (we've done hundreds), but is more labor intensive.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Bruce
> >
> > On Wed,
> > 2 Feb 2005, Margaret Duff wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,  I am trying to reconstruct brains of patients who had one
> > > structural scan during each of 2 visits, a month apart.  I averaged the
> > > two images together, but since they are from different visits, they look
> > > very badly lined up.  It looks like there is one image and another image
> > > overlaid and shifted by a cm or so.  These are clearly wrong and will not
> > > work but I was wondering if it was OK to run freesurfer with only one of
> > > the images, or if there was a way to line these two images up better so
> > > they can be combined?  Thanks, Margaret
> > >
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