AFNI Message Board

Dear AFNI users-

We are very pleased to announce that the new AFNI Message Board framework is up! Please join us at:

https://discuss.afni.nimh.nih.gov

Existing user accounts have been migrated, so returning users can login by requesting a password reset. New users can create accounts, as well, through a standard account creation process. Please note that these setup emails might initially go to spam folders (esp. for NIH users!), so please check those locations in the beginning.

The current Message Board discussion threads have been migrated to the new framework. The current Message Board will remain visible, but read-only, for a little while.

Sincerely, AFNI HQ

History of AFNI updates  

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April 03, 2015 04:44PM
You could resample the datasets to have the same resolution and FOV, but this is usually not a good idea because if you resample the anatomical, it'll lose resolution, while if you resample the EPI it will take up enormous gobs of disk space without making your analysis better. The important thing to note is that, essentially, AFNI is storing where these datasets are in space, independent of where the "camera" was when it took a picture. So the pixels don't line up, but the underlying object does. I can't really explain this very well, but the easiest thing to do is open the AFNI viewer and overlay the EPI on the anatomical. You'll see that the anatomical is smooth but the EPI is blocky, because they're on different grids (and you probably have nearest neighbor resampling on because that's the default). But they appear in the same place (you can click "See Overlay" on and off to verify this) because AFNI knows how the voxels in the image map into locations in space.
Subject Author Posted

is it better to use align_epi_anat.py or use alignment within afni_proc.py?

maitra March 31, 2015 01:43PM

Re: is it better to use align_epi_anat.py or use alignment within afni_proc.py?

rick reynolds March 31, 2015 09:47PM

Re: is it better to use align_epi_anat.py or use alignment within afni_proc.py?

maitra April 02, 2015 06:28PM

Re: is it better to use align_epi_anat.py or use alignment within afni_proc.py?

rick reynolds April 02, 2015 09:17PM

Re: is it better to use align_epi_anat.py or use alignment within afni_proc.py?

maitra April 02, 2015 11:05PM

Re: is it better to use align_epi_anat.py or use alignment within afni_proc.py?

maitra April 03, 2015 04:28PM

Re: is it better to use align_epi_anat.py or use alignment within afni_proc.py?

Isaac Schwabacher April 03, 2015 04:44PM

Re: is it better to use align_epi_anat.py or use alignment within afni_proc.py?

rick reynolds April 07, 2015 08:58AM