Ghosh et al. (2011). Evaluating the Validity of Volume-Based and Surface-Based Brain Image Registration for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Studies in Children 4-to-11 Years of Age. Neuroimage
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31 participants aged 4.2 to 11 years of age.
MPRAGE sequence on a Siemens Magnetom Trio 3T scanner (16 subjects: TR: 2350 ms, TE: 3.45 ms, TI: 1100ms, Flip angle: 7 deg; 15 subjects: TR: 2000 ms, TE: 3.39 ms, TI: 900ms, Flip angle: 9 deg; GRAPPA: x2).
Processed using ANTS [http://www.picsl.upenn.edu/ANTS/]
TRANSFORMATION SyN[0.5] ITERATLEVEL 30x99x11 REGULARIZATION Gauss[2,0] METRIC PR[ METRICPARAMS=1,2 ] ITERATIONS 6
The following steps were performed to ensure this download was in MNI space.
mri_convert template.nii.gz template.nii.gz --out_orientation LAS
flirt -in template.nii.gz -ref MNI152_T1_1mm_brain.nii.gz \
-out ANTS_pediatric.nii.gz
The figure below compares SPM 5 template (T1.nii), FreeSurfer affine template (average/711-2C_as_mni_average_305.4dfp.img) and the above custom ANTS template.
