[Mristudio-users] Obtaining tract volume data

[susumu mori]

Hi Melisa,

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:12 AM,  <melcarr at umich.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm attempting to calculate mean tract volume for a tract spanning
> between two ROIs in a subject's FA map.
>
> Is it safe to define tract volume as: the number of voxels between
> both ROIs multiplied by the size of an individual voxel?

This is what we do too.

>
> Does the first measure above ("the number of voxels between both
> ROIs") correspond to the measure "Average Length, mm" in the Fiber
> Statistics window (an example of this window is shown in the User
> Manual, page 26, Figure 19. Fiber-statistics)?

I think the number of voxels occupied by fibers and the average length
of the fibers are very different. The former has unit of mm^3 and the
latter is mm. I don't use the length of fibers for quantification.


>
> Just wondering, thank you.
>
> -Melisa Carrasco
>
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