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Siemens gradient orientation and rotation

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11:06 am
June 14, 2010


jzhuo

Baltimore

Member

posts 6

I've been trying to figure out how to correctly rotate the Siemens diffusion gradient table to suit oblique slices. I understand that DTK handels that internally. But I also would like to use FSL for motion and eddy current correction first (also rotate the gradient table according to image rotation). So I would really love to know how DTK is handeling the roration of the gradient tables. I've tried many ways, but when I use my corrected gradient table and not let DTK to correct for gradient orientation, I always get wrong fiber track (compare to the the automatically corrected table)

 

So for example I can extract from DICOM header that the slice orientation is:

(0.7534, 0.4550, -0.4747),(-0.6167, 0.7395, -0.2700)

 

I'm using standard Siemens 6 direction:

1, 0, 1
-1, 0, 1

0, 1, 1

0, 1, -1

1, 1, 0

-1, 1, 0

 

Then how could I get a correct gradient table?  What would it be?

 

Thank you very much.

 

Jiachen

9:06 pm
June 14, 2010


Ruopeng

Admin

posts 406

If I understand correctly, after you correct the gradient table by yourself, you still feed it into DTK and let it reconstruct the data? If so, that would not work. Even if your uncheck "orientation correction" option, there is still some internal reorientation of the gradient vectors in DTK. It's just it does not correct for oblique angle anymore. 

Ruopeng