Why doesn't REST identify the mouse fMRI data?

Submitted by liq2005liq on

Hi, everyone

I'm now doing the reseach on resting-state fMRI in mice. The data was aquired from the Bruker scanner and it is not DICOM file. I used the code in the Tools for NIfTI and ANALYZE image (http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/8797-tools-for-nifti-and-analyze-image) to convert it into nifti file. And I found that the REST did not identify them and it did not work. The REST demonstrated no time point in the GUI. I don't know why. Can someone help me solve this problem? Any help will be appreciated very much! Due to the sized of the file, I only attach the Bruker raw data with one time point. 

YAN Chao-Gan

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 07:15

Hi,

I have never seen this kind of DICOM data before. Thus have no comments on how to convert DICOM to NIfTI.

As you said the NIfTI files don't work, have you ever tried DPABI?

Could you paste one NIfTI file here?

Best,

Chao-Gan

 

liq2005liq

Thu, 09/25/2014 - 16:27

In reply to by YAN Chao-Gan

Hi, Chao-gan

Thank you for response. I used DPABI yesterday and I found that DPARSFA worked on the 3D NIFTI files. However, it doesn't work on the 4D files. It recoganized the 4D file as only one time point. And I also found that it only recoganized the 3D files in alphabetical order, but not in number order. for instance, I have 10 time points from sub_1.nii to sub_10.nii. The DPARSFA would recoganize these files in the following order: sub_1.nii, sub_10.nii, sub_2.nii,......sub_9.nii. If I'd like to remove the first 5 time points, the sub_10.nii will be removed. It's not exactly what I want. I think these two prolems should be solved in order to provide better performance with DPABI. Anyway, I'm grateful to you.

Best

Qiang

Hi Qiang,

1. 4D .nii file should work. You can paste one file here to check.

2. You should name them as sub_01.nii, sub_02.nii, ..., sub_09.nii, sub_10.nii...

Best,

Chao-Gan