Aligning head across runs

[Vladimir Litvak]

maxfilter is part of Neuromag software. See for instance

http://imaging.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/meg/Maxfilter
http://www.megwiki.org/index.php?title=Using_MaxFilter

It is definitely a better choice for Neuromag users.

Vladimir

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Maximilien Chaumon
<maximilien.chaumon at gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the maxfilter?
>
>
> 2010/7/16 jan-mathijs schoffelen <jan.schoffelen at donders.ru.nl>
>>
>> Dear Max,
>> I don't think there is a conceptual objection against building in support
>> for the NM306 system, although it may be less trivial to do a combined
>> simultaneous realignment of planar gradiometers and magnetometers. The
>> choice of the 4 sensors used to compute the transformation matrix between
>> the 'old' and 'new' sensor positions seems reasonable to me.
>> On a side note, doesn't the maxfilter provide you with the possibility to
>> correct for differences in head position?
>> Cheers,
>> Jan-Mathijs
>> On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:41 PM, Maximilien Chaumon wrote:
>>
>> Thank you,
>> The layout of our neuromag306 is not supported in ft_megrealign.
>> What sensors should I write for constructing the average location of the
>> MEG sensors?
>> (line 190 and below)
>> I have triplets of sensors that match this layout.
>> http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/_detail/tutorial/layout/nm306all.png
>>
>> Figured out these guys might work, but that's just a guess. I've done no
>> calculation or anything...
>>
>>     labC = 'MEG 2111';
>>     labF = 'MEG 1011';
>>     labL = 'MEG 0141';
>>     labR = 'MEG 1431';
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>> Max
>>
>>
>> 2010/7/14 jan-mathijs schoffelen <jan.schoffelen at donders.ru.nl>
>>>
>>> Hi Max,
>>> You may want to have a look at the function ft_megrealign. Alternatively,
>>> you could construct a gradiometer structure which contains a meaningful
>>> average of the coil positions and orientations.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jan-Mathijs
>>> On Jul 13, 2010, at 9:28 PM, Maximilien Chaumon wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello fieldtripers,
>>>
>>> I've read this topic
>>> https://listserv.surfnet.nl/scripts/wa.cgi?A2=ind1004&L=FIELDTRIP&D=0&P=4576
>>> which poses the same problem that I'm going to raise now.
>>>
>>> I have several runs and want to concatenate my data. I understand that I
>>> can do ft_appenddata, but that I then loose the sensor positions of the
>>> second and subsequent runs.
>>> Is there a way to align the head position across runs? Does it make sense
>>> to interpolate the data between sensors to align all to the same position?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Max
>>>
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>>> Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen
>>> Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour,
>>> Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging,
>>> Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
>>> J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl
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>>
>> Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen
>> Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour,
>> Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging,
>> Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
>> J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl
>> Telephone: 0031-24-3668063
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