hi,
Sorry to take so long to get back to you.
I think we will be fine with the dilated mask, but to be complete, here are the alignment steps.
anat to T1
3dQwarp -iwarp -prefix ${subj}.anat2mni.${ScanNo} -nopadWARP \
-duplo -useweight -blur 0 3 -resample -base ${MNI_1mm} -allineate \
-allineate_opts '-twopass -cost nmi -autoweight -fineblur 3 -cmass -source_automask -automask' \
-source ${subj}.anat.uni.strip+orig
epi to T1
align_epi_anat.py -anat ${subj}.anat.uni.strip+orig -epi ${subj}.rest.strip+orig \
-prep_off -suffix _rest2anat -epi2anat -epi_base 0 \
-dset1_strip None -dset2_strip None -master_epi ${subj}.anat.uni.strip+orig
epi -> T1 -> MNI
3dNwarpApply -source pb07.${subj}.blur+orig \
-nwarp "${subj}.anat2mni.${ScanNo}_WARP+tlrc" \
-affter ${subj}.rest2anat.${ScanNo}_mat.aff12.1D \
-master NWARP -prefix ${subj}.rest.temp
Thanks, Justin