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Track issues…Help!

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6:32 am
June 17, 2011


r.navarra

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posts 13

We have many DTI data (from Philips 3T, standard low, medium, high and experimental 60s directions). By using default paremeter values in Diffusion Toolkit We get good FA images but when We try to track fibers, our results are very poor: short or nothing fibers from even real big ROIs. We did try to change angle and mask threshold, orientation path and propagation algorithm but it dosn't work yet. Cry

 

11:36 am
June 17, 2011


Ruopeng

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A slice filter was automatically applied when you load the tracks. So what you see is only tracks from that slice. You can uncheck it to see everthing (slow!). Maybe you should take a look at the demos which explains those things.

http://trackvis.org/demo/

Ruopeng

 

12:29 pm
June 20, 2011


r.navarra

Member

posts 13

Post edited 4:30 pm – June 20, 2011 by r.navarra


Thanky you for reply. I've seen demos.

I think the problem is the length of the fibers. With my data is always very low (short) and also by setting manually I get the abnormal fibers. I'm afraid of committing a mistake in the DTK execution or settings but I do not know how to control, the FA corresponds with that one that I obtain with FSL.

First picture is from our data. Second one from a workshop ( http://www.ismrm.org/italy/Ima…..natomy.pdf )

11:04 am
June 21, 2011


Ruopeng

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The tracks in the first picture do not appear right. But I can't really tell from a static picture. If you could send me the track file or even the raw image data, I should have a better idea.

Ruopeng

2:26 pm
June 22, 2011


r.navarra

Member

posts 13

Thank you so much for support!

All data is in: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RF7M3MKP

PAR/REC files are original data.

NifTI files are:

dataorig : from dcm2nii

dataDTI : il dataorig without last volume (mean of gradient volumes)

DTIgtcX files are:

Gradient tables from PAR/REC by using DTI_gradient_table_creator_Philips_RelX

DTK_bvecs.txt:

Gradient table for DTK (0,0,0 in last position)

 

 

12:12 pm
June 29, 2011


Ruopeng

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posts 406

Sorry for the late reply. I'm having trouble accessing megaupload website from work. Would it be possible to send it through here:

https://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/facility/filedrop/index.html

Please zip everything to one file and use rpwang@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu as my email address.

Best,

Ruopeng

3:19 am
June 30, 2011


r.navarra

Member

posts 13

Post edited 12:51 pm – June 30, 2011 by r.navarra


Uploading… Done! :)
Thank you. 

11:36 am
June 30, 2011


Ruopeng

Admin

posts 406

Got it. It appears that you just need to apply a "Invert X" in tracking step. It often happens with diffusion data from different scanners or different "eras". You just need to play with the inversion flag and see what makes best sense.

Best,

Ruopeng

12:40 pm
June 30, 2011


r.navarra

Member

posts 13

UHUU! It works!!!! :D Thank you so much!