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Data Conversion
In this exercise, an image from a scanner, in DICOM format, will be converted into mgz format, using recon-all.
You first want to make sure you are working in the appropriate directory and that you have set your SUBJECTS_DIR variable correctly. You can do this by entering the following directory:
cd $FREESURFER_HOME/subjects/buckner_data/tutorial_subjs
Set the current directory to be the default subjects directory using this command:
setenv SUBJECTS_DIR ${PWD}
Two acquisitions of an anonymized volume have been provided for this tutorial with the recognizable face characteristics removed, in the directory buckner_data/tutorial_subjs/014-anon and buckner_data/tutorial_subjs/015-anon. Using the recon-all script you can specify both the acquisitions to be converted to mgz format as well as the name you wish to give your subject in the following format:
recon-all -i <in volume 1> -i <in volume 2> -s <subject name>
where <in volume 1> is the first file that appears in the first acquisition directory, and <in volume 2> is the first file that appears in the second acquisition directory. For this example we will use anon as our <subject name>. To convert the two anon acquisitions use the command:
recon-all -i 014-anon/001.dcm -i 015-anon/001.dcm -s anon
The output file list can be viewed with the following command:
ls ${SUBJECTS_DIR}/anon/mri/orig
which will show:
001.mgz 002.mgz
View the output of the data conversion with tkmedit:
tkmedit -f ${SUBJECTS_DIR}/anon/mri/orig/001.mgz
The full path to the converted volume is specified with the -f option because a file is being specified explicitly. If tkmedit is called without the -f, it will assume that the data is in ${SUBJECTS_DIR}/<subject name>/mri, where <subject name> is the first argument on the tkmedit command line (anon in the example below).
You can motion correct your two acquisitions using the -motioncor option of recon-all like this:
recon-all -motioncor -s anon
Once motion correction has been performed using 001.mgz and 002.mgz, the volume ${SUBJECTS_DIR}/anon/mri/orig.mgz has been produced, tkmedit will be able to find that volume using the subject directory and the volume name:
tkmedit anon orig.mgz