<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Dorian,<br><br></div>As far as I know, excluding specific slices of specific volumes is currently not possible for CSD analysis. It is available for tensor fitting (and subsequent MD or FA maps, etc..) though: <a href="http://www.brain.org.au/software/mrtrix/commands/dwi2tensor.html">http://www.brain.org.au/software/mrtrix/commands/dwi2tensor.html</a> . If you got whole volumes that are unusable due to serious artifacts, you can of course throw them out beforehand. If it's single slices that are affected for all volumes, these could be excluded from the mask (but I guess this scenario doesn't make a lot of sense in practice).<br>
<br></div>I'm not fully sure on all the options offered by ExploreDTI, but as far as I know, the (or one of the) probabilistic CSD tracking algorithm(s) in ExploreDTI is based on bootstrapping the data, yet following the ("deterministic") maxima of the subsequently obtained FODs for each bootstrap realisation. I.e., the probabilistic distribution sampled is a distribution of the FOD maxima due to bootstrapping. More details can be found in Ben's paper: <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.21032/abstract">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.21032/abstract</a> . The current probabilistic algorithm in MRtrix, on the other hand, directly samples the FOD itself. More information on this one can be found in the following paper: <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ima.22005/abstract">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ima.22005/abstract</a> .<br>
</div>Do note, however, that there's a lot more details/settings/choices/... that can affect the appearance of the final tractogram. An overview of some of these things is given in the MRtrix paper, but there's also others. I'm not sure, but I think ExploreDTI seeds tracks in the center of voxels for some or all of its tractography algorithms, for example; while MRtrix seeds randomly (uniformly) at any coordinate in any seeding regions. This simple difference can by itself already yield a different "qualitative" feeling of the outcome. Even a different rendering/visualisation can give a different impression...! So, in the end, it all depends on how dissimilar your results look: is it just a qualitative thing, or are the distributions of tracks really different, or do your tracks even segment different structures all together? Depending on what you want to achieve with the final tractograms, some of these differences might not be all that important, while others might be crucial.<br>
<br></div>Hope this helps!<br><br></div>Cheers,<br>Thijs<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><b><font size="4">Thijs Dhollander</font><br><font><a href="mailto:thijs.dhollander@gmail.com" target="_blank">thijs.dhollander@gmail.com</a><br>
Tel. +32 475 36 44 27</font></b><br><font size="1">Medical Image Computing (MIC), ESAT-PSI, Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven</font></span></div></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Dorian P. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alb.net@gmail.com" target="_blank">alb.net@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>This is my first post, congratulations on the software. A piece of cake to use on Win7, quick to use and no crashes.</div><div><br></div><div>My question has to do with bad slices. Is there a way to exclude specific slices from analysis? My scanner is misbehaving at times, and I have slices completely collapsed (I guess the subject moved too).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I noticed some people use ExploreDTI to preprocess, can it be used to "delete" bad slices too?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>One more question since we are in the topic. Does ExploreDTI have the same CSD/probabilistic algorithm of MRtrix? It seem to have the CSD option but results don't look similar to MRtrix.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div>Dorian</div><div>TJU</div></div>
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