Thank you Jan-Mathijs,
I will consider your first and last suggestion. I don’t want to reinvent the 
wheel again. 
best
tzvetan


> Hi Tzvetan,
> 
> It sounds you want to do a beamformer type of source reconstruction using 
> source positions defined on a 3D grid. You could use the provided data for 
> this, where the individual grids are in register with a grid in normalised 
> volume. Assuming you are doing all in FieldTrip anyway, you could interpolate 
> the volumetric atlas onto one of the template grids (which are part of the 
> software release, but can also be found in FieldTrip), which will give you 
> the anatomical labelling for each of your beamformer’s dipole positions right 
> away. Alternatively, if you would really want to create your own 3D-grid, you 
> should plug in the appropriate transformation matrix from the transform 
> text-file into the anatomical MR-structure. A different route altogether, and 
> this is what the HC-consortium is pushing for, is to work in 
> surface-registered space. This does much more credit to the analysis of the 
> data from the haemodynamic and structural modalities. Although it’s still an 
> open question whether MEG in itself will benefit from a surface-based 
> analysis (when using beamformers), you could consider using the cortical 
> sheet source models, in combination with an anatomical labeling defined on 
> the surface (e.g. the Conte69 atlas). Of note, if you were working on the 
> surface, you could benefit from any cool parcellation schemes that may be 
> coming out of the consortium soon. 
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Jan-Mathijs
>  
> 
> On Apr 27, 2015, at 9:37 AM, Tzvetan Popov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi Jan-Mathijs,
>> 
>>> Hi Tzvetan,
>>> 
>>> Which anatomical MR are you using?
>>  I’m using '100307_3T_T1w_MPR1.nii.gz’. 
>>> Note that the ‘baked in’ fiducial locations are indeed approximate, but 
>>> they only make sense in context of the anatomical image in which they have 
>>> been clicked. This image was a 1mm resolution image with a sufficient field 
>>> of view to capture the entire scalp surface + facial details. This image is 
>>> not part of the released data. 
>> Got it. Want work then indeed. I assumed that the approximate locations are 
>> based on the provided MRI. All clear.
>>> Thus, in short, the fiducial locations (defined in voxels) don’t make sense 
>>> in the context of the anatomical image you are using. 
>>> Since everything is already in register (and the co-registration details 
>>> are represented in the 100307_MEG_anatomy_transform.txt), what is it you 
>>> want to do?
>> Yes all is co-registred and I was able to do source analysis etc. What I 
>> wanted to do is to re-compute the sourcemodel warped in the aal-mni-space 
>> instead of mni-space as it is now.
>> Many thanks
>> tzvetan
>>> 
>>> Best wishes,
>>> 
>>> Jan-Mathijs
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, MD PhD 
>>> 
>>> Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,
>>> Nijmegen, The Netherlands
>>> 
>>> Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, 
>>> Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging,
>>> Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
>>> 
>>> [email protected]
>>> Telephone: +31-24-3614793
>>> 
>>> http://www.hettaligebrein.nl
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Apr 27, 2015, at 8:08 AM, Tzvetan Popov <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dear hcp-users,
>>>> 
>>>> I am trying to coregister the individual MRI and the 4D coordinates using 
>>>> the fiducial information provided in ‘100307_MEG_anatomy_fiducials.txt’. 
>>>> When using the provided voxel coordinates the anatomical image is 
>>>> misaligned (see attached figure 2). Interactively providing the 
>>>> approximate coordinates of the fiducials aligned the volume correctly 
>>>> (attached figure 1). It appears to me that the provided voxel coordinates 
>>>> are somewhat off. . Am I doing something wrong, has anybody encountered 
>>>> similar problem?
>>>> Thanks a bunch in advance
>>>> tzvetan
>>>> 
>>>> Here is the code snippet that will produce the two figures
>>>> 
>>>>     cfg=[];
>>>>     cfg.method = 'fiducial';
>>>>     cfg.fiducial.nas = [ 40 154 94 ];% hcp locations
>>>>     cfg.fiducial.lpa = [ 139 168 169 ];% hcp locations
>>>>     cfg.fiducial.rpa = [ 141 171 26 ];% hcp locations
>>>>     mriR = ft_volumerealign(cfg, mri);
>>>>     ft_determine_coordsys(mriR, 'interactive', 'no’);
>>>>     
>>>>     cfg=[];
>>>>     cfg.method = 'fiducial';
>>>>     cfg.fiducial.nas = [128 299 141 ];% my interactive locations
>>>>     cfg.fiducial.lpa =  [ 240 148  91 ];% my interactive locations
>>>>     cfg.fiducial.rpa = [ 29 157  80];% my interactive locations
>>>>     mriR = ft_volumerealign(cfg, mri);
>>>>     ft_determine_coordsys(mriR, 'interactive', 'no');
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> <Misaligned.png><Aligned correctly.png>
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>> 
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