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- From: Christopher Joseph Bailey <cjb@pet.auh.dk>
- To: David Weinstein <dmw@sci.utah.edu>
- Cc: scirun-users@sci.utah.edu
- Subject: Re: [SCIRUN-USERS] View MR-image and dipole location
- Date: 12 Feb 2004 11:01:03 +0100
- Organization: Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience
Hi David,
First for my specs: Dual Athlon (à 2.6GHz), 2GB RAM and a 128MB GeForce
Ti4200. The MR images are: 1mm cubic voxels, 176 x 256 x 256 matrix,
signed short (but can be cast to bytes without problem).
You can see the approximate location of our "most interesting" dipole in
(crosshairs, not easy to see...)
http://www.pet.au.dk/~cjb/scirun/dipole_location.png
We're assuming it's (primary) auditory, and it seems so from my rough
registration. It's quite a superficial source.
I had imagined using volume rendering, since I'm not familiar with
determining surfaces via isovalues (sounds like something I should know
about, though!).
What I'm going for is something like
1):
http://www.sci.utah.edu/cgi-bin/sci_gallery.pl?key=IMG:wei2003043006
but then again something more towards
2):
http://www.sci.utah.edu/cgi-bin/sci_gallery.pl?key=IMG:wei2003043017
Would it be possible (using volume rendering) to make a wedge (1) into
the brain surface (2)? I have the MR also with non-brain matter removed
(using BET from FSL, Oxford).
I can try to use some tools (maybe from FreeSurfer) to normalize the
gray and white matters (i.e. white = 110, gray = 70), if this would help
in the rendering and/or isovalue search.
Did I forget someting? Thank you for spending time on this!
Best,
-Chris
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 18:35, David Weinstein wrote:
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Hi Christopher,
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I'd be happy to help you with this. I just need additional
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clarification on this component:
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> I would like to make a rendering
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> of the surface of the volume and make a cutout to show the superior
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> temporal lobes (auditory cortex).
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Do you want to render the scalp and cortex, and then just cut-away a
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wedge-shaped portion of the scalp surface to reveal the temporal lobe
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of the cortex? And if so, do you want the cortical surface to be
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semi-transparent, or perhaps rendered in wire-frame? --otherwise,
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there's a chance the dipole could be "hidden" if it's sub-cortical.
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And then there's the question to determine the surfaces -- are you
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planning on finding the scalp and/or cortical surface via isovalues?
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Alternatively, we could use volume rendering instead, assuming you have
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a powerful enough graphics card (e.g. NVidia GeForce 3). For volume
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rendering we could cut a wedge out of the whole head -- then the
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challenge is choosing the transfer function to pull out those features
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of the volume that should appear (similar to picking the isovalues,
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above).
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Any additional information you could give me regarding what you want
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this visualization to look like (and what type of graphics card you'll
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be using) would help me as I'm building this net for you.
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Sincerely,
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David Weinstein
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SCIRun Project Coordinator
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SCI Institute, University of Utah
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On Feb 11, 2004, at 6:20 AM, Christopher Joseph Bailey wrote:
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> Dear List,
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> I appologise in advance for trying to take a shortcut, but...
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> I have two MR-images of subjects we had in an MEG experiment. We used
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> proprietary software (xfit, Neuromag, Finland) to fit dipoles to their
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> MEG responses at a few timepoints. Now we want to show these individual
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> subject responses on their MR's, and I would like to use SCIRun. My
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> problem is zero experience (appart from the tutorial) on it's use and
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> would really appreciate some help.
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> I have the MR image in Analyze format (can of course convert to
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> whatever) that I would like to read in. I would like to make a
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> rendering
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> of the surface of the volume and make a cutout to show the superior
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> temporal lobes (auditory cortex). Then I would like to show one or two
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> dipoles (as standard dot-arrow objects) "nicely" placed within the
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> cutouts. The MR- and dipole coordinate systems have been aligned.
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> Could anyone out there share a net I could modify for my purposes or
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> otherwise get me started? I was unable to find help "Googling" on the
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> web. In the future, I plan to get more familiar with BioPSE.
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> Any help much appreciated,
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> Christopher Bailey
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> Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN)
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> Århus Sygehus
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> Denmark
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> cjb@pet.auh.dk
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