OK, first, while reverse-engineering cat, be very careful. I think you'd be fairly heartbroken if you didn't get her back together properly.
I'm wondering whether the experiments could just be conducted inside the MRI machine with the cat un-restrained, and write a program to key in on a distinctive skull feature or something to re-algn the images afterward to compensate for the cat's movement around the chamber.)
Yes; it's a fairly simple (said the guy who hasn't written code to do it) extension of the existing registration algorithms already used sometimes for MRI data. CPU-intensive as all hell, though.
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I'm wondering whether the experiments could just be conducted inside the MRI machine with the cat un-restrained, and write a program to key in on a distinctive skull feature or something to re-algn the images afterward to compensate for the cat's movement around the chamber.)
Yes; it's a fairly simple (said the guy who hasn't written code to do it) extension of the existing registration algorithms already used sometimes for MRI data. CPU-intensive as all hell, though.