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Name

mri_vol2vol - Resamples a volume into another field-of-view using varous types of matrices (FreeSurfer, FSL, SPM, and MNI).

Synopsis

mri_vol2vol

Arguments

Required Flagged Arguments

--mov movvol

input (or output template with --inv)

--o outvol

output volume

Optional Flagged Arguments

--targ targvol

output template (or input with --inv)

--disp dispvol

displacement volume

--reg register.dat

tkRAS-to-tkRAS matrix (tkregister2 format)

--lta register.lta

Linear Transform Array (usually only 1 transform)

--fsl register.fsl

fslRAS-to-fslRAS matrix (FSL format)

--xfm register.xfm

ScannerRAS-to-ScannerRAS matrix (MNI format)

--regheader

ScannerRAS-to-ScannerRAS matrix = identity

--mni152reg

target MNI152 space (need FSL installed)

--s subject

set matrix = identity and use subject for any templates

--inv

sample from targ to mov

--tal

map to a sub FOV of MNI305 (with --reg only)

--talres resolution

set voxel size 1mm or 2mm (def is 1)

--talxfm xfmfile

default is talairach.xfm (looks in mri/transforms)

--m3z morph

non-linear morph encoded in the m3z format

--noDefM3zPath

flag indicating that the code should not be looking for the non-linear m3z morph in the default location (subj/mri/transforms), but should use the morph name as is

--inv-morph

compute and use the inverse of the m3z morph

--fstarg <vol>

optionally use vol from subject in --reg as target. default is orig.mgz

--crop scale

crop and change voxel size

--slice-crop sS eE

crop output slices to be within sS and eE

--slice-reverse

reverse order of slices, update vox2ras

--slice-bias alpha

apply half-cosine bias field

--trilin

trilinear interpolation (default)

--nearest

nearest neighbor interpolation

--cubic

cubic B-Spline interpolation

--interp interptype

interpolation cubic, trilin, nearest (default is trilin)

--mul mulval

multiply output by mulval

--precision precisionid

output precision (default is float)

--keep-precision

set output precision to that of input

--kernel

save the trilinear interpolation kernel instead

--no-resample

do not resample, just change vox2ras matrix

--rot Ax Ay Az

rotation angles (deg) to apply to reg matrix

--trans Tx Ty Tz

translation (mm) to apply to reg matrix

--shear Sxy Sxz Syz

xz is in-plane

--reg-final regfinal.dat

final reg after rot and trans (but not inv)

--synth

replace input with white Gaussian noise

--seed seed

seed for synth (default is to set from time of day)

--save-reg

write out output volume registration matrix

Description

General

Resamples a volume into another field-of-view using various types of matrices (FreeSurfer, FSL, SPM, and MNI). This is meant to be used in conjunction with tkregister2.

Notes

The data file format can be specified implicitly (through the path name) or explicitly. All formats accepted by mri_convert can be used.

Examples

Example 1

If a functional volume is f.bhdr (or f.nii.gz, or f.mgh, etc), and the subject is bert, and the registration file is register.dat, then running the following command should show that they are in registration:

tkregister2 --reg register.dat --mov f.nii.gz

If they are not, then fix it because nothing below is going to work. You can also check the registration with:

tkmedit bert orig.mgz  -overlay f.nii.gz -overlay-reg register.dat

The register.dat will look something like this:

bert
3.125
5.000
0.150000
1.000000e+00 0.000000e+00 0.000000e+00 -2.252487e+00
0.000000e+00 -8.902127e-01 4.555448e-01 2.342102e+00
0.000000e+00 4.555449e-01 8.902128e-01 -2.159538e-01
0.000000e+00 0.000000e+00 0.000000e+00 1.000000e+00
round

A. To resample the functional into anatomical space:

mri_vol2vol --reg register.dat --mov f.nii.gz --fstarg --o f-in-anat.mgh

f-in-anat.mgh will have the same size and geometry as bert/mri/orig.mgz. You can test the result in two ways:

tkregister2 --reg register.dat --mov f.nii.gz --targ f-in-anat.mgh

tkregister2 --mov f-in-anat.mgh --targ $SUBJECTS_DIR/bert/mri/orig.mgz \
     --regheader --reg /tmp/reg

B. To resample the anatomical into the functional space. This is basically the same command line as 1.A, but --inv has been included and the name of the output is changed.

mri_vol2vol --reg register.dat --mov f.nii.gz --fstarg --o anat-in-func.mgh --inv

anat-in-func.mgh will be the same size and geometry as f.nii.gz. You can test the result in two ways:

tkregister2 --reg register.dat --mov anat-in-func.mgh

tkregister2 --mov anat-in-func.mgh --targ f.nii.gz --regheader --reg /tmp/reg

C. Map functional to anatomical without resampling. Rather, change the vox2ras (sform/qform) matrix. This is the same cmd line as 1.A, but --no-resample as been added.

mri_vol2vol --reg register.dat --mov f.nii.gz --fstarg --o f.new.vox2ras.nii.gz --no-resample

f.new.vox2ras.nii.gz will have the same dimension and voxel size as f.nii.gz, but its vox2ras (sform/qform) matrix will have changed. You can check the registration in two ways:

tkregister2 --mov f.new.vox2ras.nii.gz --s bert --regheader --reg /tmp/reg

tkmedit bert orig.mgz -overlay f.new.vox2ras.nii.gz

D. Map a binary mask in functional space to anatomical space. This is basically the same cmd line as 1.A, but --interp nearest has been added so that it does not try to interpolate the mask (ie, it will still be binary after resampling):

mri_vol2vol --reg register.dat --mov mask.nii.gz --fstarg --o mask-in-anat.mgh --interp nearest

Example 2

A. Map functional to talairach (MNI305) space with 2mm isotropic resolution. This is very similar to 1.A with the addition of --tal and --talres 2.

mri_vol2vol --mov f.nii.gz --reg register.dat --o f-in-tal.2mm.mgh --tal --talres 2

f-in-tal.2mm.mgh will be 2mm isotropic with the same geometry as $FREESURFER_HOME/average/mni305.cor.subfov2.mgz. This command will also create f-in-tal.2mm.mgh.reg, which will register the volume with any average MNI305 FreeSurfer subject (fsaverage is used by default). The resampling can be checked with:

tkregister2 --mov f-in-tal.2mm.mgh --reg f-in-tal.2mm.mgh.reg

B. Map functional to talairach (MNI305) space with 1mm isotropic resolution. Same as 2.A but use --talres 1.

mri_vol2vol --mov f.nii.gz --reg register.dat --o f-in-tal.1mm.mgh --tal --talres 1

f-in-tal.1mm.mgh will take up 8 times as much space as f-in-tal.2mm.mgh

Example 3

Apply an MNI transform to data by resampling the anatomical orig.mgz into talairach space using bert/mri/transforms/talairach.xfm:

First, check that the talairach.xfm is correct (this is basically the samething as 'tkregister2 --s bert --fstal' in Example 2):

cd bert/mri
tkregister2 --targ orig.mgz \
     --mov $FREESURFER_HOME/average/mni305.cor.mgz \
     --xfm transforms/talairach.xfm --reg /tmp/reg

Now resample:

mri_vol2vol --mov orig.mgz \
     --targ $FREESURFER_HOME/average/mni305.cor.mgz \
     --xfm transforms/talairach.xfm  \
     --o orig-in-mni305.mgz

Now test the resampling:

tkregister2 --mov orig-in-mni305.mgz \
    --targ $FREESURFER_HOME/average/mni305.cor.mgz \
    --reg /tmp/reg --regheader

Bugs

sinc interpolation is broken except for maybe COR to COR.

See Also

mri_convert tkregister2

Links

FreeSurfer, FsFast

Methods Description

References

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to <analysis-bugs@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>

Author/s

mri_vol2vol (last edited 2017-10-04 08:29:34 by MorganFogarty)