It'll be the surface area of whatever you specified by the -l flag -- in your case everything that is part of lh.cortex.label. You can view exactly what that includes on tksurfer. Doing so, you'll see that the non-cortical area along the medial wall is excluded.
cheers, -MH On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 18:23 +0000, Zhang, Yuning wrote: > Does the surface area calculated here include the non-cortical area along the > medial wall ? > > Thank you very much. > > ________________________________________ > From: Michael Harms [mha...@conte.wustl.edu] > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 5:24 PM > To: Zhang, Yuning > Cc: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] calculate the surface area of pial surface using > mris_anatomical_stats > > usage: mris_anatomical_stats [options] <subject name> <hemi> [<surface > name>] > > So, just end your command with the word 'pial'. > > cheers, > -MH > > > On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 17:09 +0000, Zhang, Yuning wrote: > > Hi,experts, > > > > I am trying to get the total surface area of pial surface using the > > following command,but it seems the default surface for this command is > > white matter surface, is there any parameters i could change to get > > the information from pial surface ? > > > > mris_anatomical_stats -l lh.cortex.label - > > f /freesurfer/subjects_1/stats/lh.cortext.stats subjects_1 lh > > > > Thanks a lot > > > > > > best > > yuning > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freesurfer mailing list > > Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > > https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer > > > > > > The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is > > addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the > > e-mail > > contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance > > HelpLine at > > http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in > > error > > but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and > > properly > > dispose of the e-mail. > _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer
