Hi Doug,

Thank you for your clarification. I checked Randy Buckner's paper, and it
did include the CSF based on my interpretation of the paper's Fig. 3 images
of the manual tracings in atlas space.

john

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Douglas N Greve
<gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>wrote:

>
> The eTIV we report is not based on counting voxels inside the skull.
> Instead, it is based on a statistical relationship between the TIV computed
> from a manual segmentation and the talairach transfrom (see Randy Buckner's
> paper). I don't know whether the original manual segs included CSF (I assume
> it did).
>
> doug
>
> John Drozd wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a question about the eTIV intracranial volume calculation.
>>
>> My question is:
>>
>> Does the eTIV intracranial volume include everything interior to the outer
>> pial surface
>> (excluding the skull, eyes, neck and dura), and does it also include the
>> CSF?
>>
>> That's all.
>> Thank you for your time.
>>
>> john drozd
>>
>>
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