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3.7 Weighting of Volumes

The tag allows you to choose the type of weighting you would like to apply to the b0 image and the DWIs. The weight will determine if b0, DWIs or both will be used in registration.

  • Equal Weights: This setting will apply equal weighting to the b0 and DWIs.
  • B0 heavy weights: This requires a good structural and good b0 but problematic DWIs.
  • DWIs heavy weights: If b0 suffers from flow artifact or gibbs ringing, we can use DWIs.
  • Median: This option has not been tested yet and hence unavilable.