I'm analyzing some resting-state data and some of the scans are 10 min while others are 7 min. I need to cut the last 3 min off of those with 10 min scans so everyone has 7 min of resting-state data. I realize I could just delete timeseries columns after processing but I'd like to perform the truncation earlier so that my temporal filtering isn't biased. I believe there's an FSL tool to accomplish this but can't find it. Any suggestions?
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$\begingroup$ Welcome. Great question. I just wish to note that we unfortunately don't have dedicated imaging folks hanging around here afaik. I inquired over at Bioinformatics a while ago, but they basically have the same hiatus. Good luck. $\endgroup$– AliceD ♦Commented Sep 24, 2019 at 8:10
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$\begingroup$ @AliceD thank you for your response. Alas, it seems like there is just no place in this world for a lost neuroimaging researcher... $\endgroup$– G WarnerCommented Sep 24, 2019 at 17:07
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1$\begingroup$ @GWarner I think most people rely on the software-specific communities. jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=fsl for you. Ultimately this is just a software limitation, since I do most of my data analysis in Matlab I would have completely different advice to give. $\endgroup$– Bryan Krause ♦Commented Sep 24, 2019 at 18:48
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It looks like fslroi is the tool I'm looking for. To temporally truncate a scan the usage would be fslroi <input> <output> <tmin> <tsize> where <tmin> would be zero and <tsize> would be the number of volumes you want to keep. Now I just need to figure out how many volumes make up 7 minutes...
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1$\begingroup$ Great that you answered your own question. You can accept it too. $\endgroup$– AliceD ♦Commented Sep 24, 2019 at 18:50