The WM in the temporal lobe has intensities ranging [89-111] - hard to
tell the average, but my estimate would be around ~95-100.

gray matter inside the pial surface ranges from 73-85, and outside the
pial surface is approximately the same.

WM in parietal lobe is generally 110.

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 15:50 -0400, Bruce Fischl wrote:
> can you send an image without the aseg overlay? Is the wm darker there 
> than elsewhere (i.e. <110)?
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Bo Shi wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, message cut off mid-write;
> >
> > We're having some trouble with the pial surface for the temporal lobes.
> > All four datasets we've processed so far have temporal lobe pial
> > surfaces that are significantly smaller than they should be (attached)
> >
> > I know there are control points for white matter - is there an
> > equivalent for gray matter?
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 14:44 -0400, Bruce Fischl wrote:
> >> no - we don't really use the cortex labels from the aseg for this reason
> >> (and others). Instead we use the surfaces (?h.white and ?h.pial) for
> >> computing cortical properties, so you should be all set.
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> Bruce
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Bo Shi wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Bruce,
> >>>
> >>> The pial surface for the top regions of the brain do fairly well in
> >>> ignoring the marrow, however, the unwanted regions still get classified
> >>> as gray matter (image attached).
> >>>
> >>> This will adversely affect the reported cortex volume no?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Bo
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 14:14 -0400, Bruce Fischl wrote:
> >>>> Hi Bo,
> >>>>
> >>>> does it affect your pial surface? You may be fine with just leaving it
> >>>> in.
> >>>>
> >>>> cheers,
> >>>> Bruce
> >>>> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Bo Shi wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Howdy -
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It seems that the skullstripping step is having some trouble removing
> >>>>> bone marrow (see attached image).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Adjusting watershed values (I've tried as low as 5) does not make any
> >>>>> significant improvement.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Does anyone else have this issue?  Can anyone provide any hints as to
> >>>>> how I might get a better automated skull-strip?  I've been manually
> >>>>> removing the marrow but it's getting real old.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Bo
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> 


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