Introduction to FreeSurfer Output

Exercise 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Goal: Practice basic Freeview tasks.

In the examples above you looked at data from a subject called “good_output”. For this challenge complete the following tasks for subject “subj_004”.

1. Open the subject’s aparc+aseg.mgz volume with a colormap of “lut”.
2. Swap the view to sagittal
3. Navigate with the arrow keys to find the right putamen

Need a hint? Here is how you opened up a similar volume for the “good_output” subject:  freeview -v good_output/mri/aseg.mgz:colormap=lut  Want to know the answer? Click and drag to highlight and reveal the text below.

Exercise 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Goal: Practice visualizing data with overlays.

1. Open subj_004’s lh.pial surface, with the overlay named lh.thickness, set the overlay to display with a threshold of 1,2
2. If needed, swap to the 3d view
3. Find the orbitofrontal cortex (Look for a thin cortical area in the frontal lobe)

Need a hint? Here is how you opened up a similar surface for the good_output subject:  freeview -f good_output/surf/lh.inflated:overlay=lh.thickness:overlay_threshold=0.1,3 --viewport 3d  Want to know the answer? Click and drag to highlight and reveal the text below.

Exercise 3

Difficulty: Beginner

Goal: Practice opening multiple files at a time with FreeView.

• For this challenge start with this terminal command:

 freeview -v 004/mri/wm.mgz:colormap=jet 004/mri/brainmask.mgz -f 004/surf/lh.pial:edgecolor=blue 004/surf/lh.white:edgecolor=red 

• Right now it only opens the left hand pial and white matter surfaces, alter it to open both for the right hand as well, with colors that match the left hand side.
• Once you have the last command working, rearrange the volume layers in freesurfer so that the wm.mgz is at %20 opacity and the brainmask can be seen underneath it (this can also be done through altering the terminal command - you can choose which way to do so).

Want the solution? Click and drag to highlight and reveal the text below.

Practice Working With Data

Exercise 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Goal: Prepare a dicom series for the recon-all stream

Your goal is to take a series of dicom images and set up your terminal veriables and recon-all command to process them.

To begin navigate to the following directory in your terminal:  $TUTORIAL_DATA/practice_with_dicoms 

Take a look at the directories found there. The  dicoms  directory contains a dicom series, and the  work  directory is where your recon--all subject output should go.

When you believe everything is setup properly - run the recon-all command. Ensure that it starts without error, then use ctrl+c to cancel it. Check in the  work  directory to ensure a directory with your subjects name was created. If you are at a FreeSurfer course there won't be enough time for the recon-all command to complete, but if you are working on your own you are welcome to let the command finish and check out the outputs.