non-rigid Tailarach transformation

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non-rigid Tailarach transformation

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Hello,

I noticed that, in some cases, Brainvisa computes a Tailarch transformation that is not rigid. Can this be true?
Shouldn't it be just a rigid tranformation?

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Re: non-rigid Tailarach transformation

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Hi Tiziano,
The Talairach transform computed by Morphologist is a combination of a rotation (rigid) and scaling factors which may be different on the 3 axes. It is anyway an affine transform.
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Re: non-rigid Tailarach transformation

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Thanks, is there a good reason to have the scaling factors? I Thought that theoretically should be rigid..
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Re: non-rigid Tailarach transformation

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I thought it was just an aligment to the CA-CP-IH axes (which is what I need), but if it's not rigid I guess it is actually an affine registration to the Tailarach atlas right?

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Re: non-rigid Tailarach transformation

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The scaling factors are used to fit the global bounding box of the brain.
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