Dear all,

I have successfully run the freesurfer-steps for my subject and completed it 
without errors. After that I started MNE to create my BEM meshes. The manual 
tells me, for MNE to do that, the mri_watershed routine from freesurfer is 
used. Also, this runs fine, as far as the four surfaces (brain, inner_skull, 
outer_skull and outer_skin) are produced.
Here is the problem: when MNE wants to create the BEM geometry file, it checks 
whether the surfaces are overlapping or not. Apparently they do:

outer skin  CM is   0.20  -3.31  10.19 mm
Going from 5th to 4th subdivision of an icosahedron (ntri: 20480 -> 5120)

outer skin  CM is   0.20  -3.31  10.19 mm
outer skull CM is   0.20  -3.19   9.75 mm
inner skull CM is   0.08  -5.38  17.14 mm
Checking that outer skull surface is inside outer skin  surface...[ok]
Checking that inner skull surface is inside outer skull surface...[failed]
Surface inner skull is not completely inside surface outer skull(sum of solid 
angles = -3.98566e-16 * 4*PI).
Coulnd't create the geometry file

Though I do not know what CM or these numbers in mm given mean, I can tell by 
using freeview, that the surfaces indeed overlap. 
My questions are now: which of all the files freesurfer created in the 
recon-all processes does the mri_watershed routine use? In other words, which 
of the surfs or transform do I have to check and manually edit to get rid of 
this problem? And which recon-processes do I have to run again? Is there an 
easier way around this problem?
As always, help is very much appreciated. Thanks.
Maria 



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Maria J. Felber, PhD Student
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
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04103 Leipzig, Germany
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