creating_mask.txt

what you want to do is to first get a mean (across time) image for each 4D file and then binarize it*. 

In order to do this, use fslmaths for each 4D file:

fslmaths 4D_inputVolume1 -Tmean -bin 3d_meanmask1
fslmaths 4D_inputVolume2 -Tmean -bin 3d_meanmask2
...
fslmaths 4D_inputVolumeN -Tmean -bin 3d_meanmaskN

Then, we'll want to get the proportion of subjects who have data for each voxel. We do this by creating a 4D file from all the 3D masks and then taking the mean across the 4th dim:

fslmerge -t allmeanmasks4d 3d_meanmask1 3d_meanmask2 ... 3d_meanmaskN

fslmaths allmeanmasks4d -Tmean propDatavox3d

One can look at this file to get a sense of how across subject alignment did and where there is consistent or spotty drop-out of data.

Lastly, make this a binary mask which is 1 where ALL subjects have data and 0 elsewhere (save as wholebrain.nii.gz):
fslmaths propDatavox3d -thr 1 wholebrain




*Note that if the data is z-scored already, this won't work (it isn't z-scored for greeneyes), because the mean will be ~0 for each voxel and so the binarize operation (turn non-zeros into 1) will be bad, so you would probably have to binarize, take the mean, then binarize again.