Yes, just add --trgsubject fsaverage
doug

On 09/15/2012 07:02 PM, Maryam Vaziri Pashkam wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> This is a separate question but related to the volume to surface 
> conversion. Is it possible to sample the sig.nii.gz file to the 
> fsaverage surface instead of the individual subject surfaces using the 
> mri_vol2surf? How should I change the command bellow to do that? I 
> want to be able to load data from different subjects to a common space 
> and see each subject's data as a different overlay on the same common 
> space. Is that possible in freesurfer?
>
> Thanks,
> Maryam
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Douglas N Greve 
> <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Maryam, I finally figured out what is going on. The bottom line
>     is that it is just a weird coincidence. The volume size is
>     70*70*33=161700 which happens to be exactly how many vertices are
>     in the left hemisphere of this subject. When tksurfer sees this,
>     it thinks that each voxel must be a vertex and displays it as such
>     instead of sampling the volume onto surface which is why it looks
>     so strange. There is not a way to force tksurfer to treat the
>     overlay as a volume, but instead (and probably better), you can
>     sample the volume onto the surface, then load it as an overlay, eg
>
>     mri_vol2surf --reg register.dof6.dat --hemi lh --mov sig.nii.gz
>     --o lh.sig.mgh --projfrac 0.5
>     tksurfer teal_tiger_kcb lh inflated -curv -overlay lh.sig.mgh
>
>     and the same thing with the right side.
>
>     The chances that this kind of thing happens must be several
>     million to one!
>     doug
>
>
>
>
>     On 09/06/2012 05:26 PM, Maryam Vaziri Pashkam wrote:
>
>         Hi Doug,
>
>         I uploaded the tar file. It is called incorrect_lh_test.tar
>
>         Thanks,
>         Maryam
>
>         On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Douglas N Greve
>         <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
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>         <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>>> wrote:
>
>             Can you upload a tarball of the subject and the sig.nii.gz
>         to our
>             file drop?
>
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>
>             doug
>
>
>
>             On 08/28/2012 10:18 AM, Maryam Vaziri Pashkam wrote:
>
>                 Hi Doug,
>
>                 Any other insight how I can solve this problem?
>
>                 Maryam
>
>                 On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Maryam Vaziri Pashkam
>         <mvaz...@fas.harvard.edu <mailto:mvaz...@fas.harvard.edu>
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>
>         <mailto:mvaz...@fas.harvard.edu
>         <mailto:mvaz...@fas.harvard.edu>>>> wrote:
>
>                     It looks fine to me. I have attached the tiff
>         image of a
>                 coronal
>                     slice. So this means that the registration of the
>         surface
>                 to the
>                     anatomical is fine. This is strange. I tried the
>         tksurfer
>                 with the
>                     original surface and the overlay on the rh looks
>         fine and
>                 the left
>                     hemisphere has the same problem as on the inflated
>                 surface. Any
>                     other idea?
>
>                     M
>
>
>                     On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Douglas N Greve
>         <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
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>         <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
>         <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>>>> wrote:
>
>
>                         I don't understand your last paragraph. Does
>         the lh
>                 surface
>                         look ok, eg, when you run
>
>                         tkmedit teal_tiger_kcb orig.mgz -surfs
>
>                         doug
>
>
>
>
>                         On 08/24/2012 06:37 PM, Maryam Vaziri Pashkam
>         wrote:
>
>                             Yes I have checked it multiple times. They
>         are the
>                 same.
>                             Here are the two lines:
>
>                             tksurfer teal_tiger_kcb rh inflated -curv
>          -overlay
>                                  
>          
> /Users/maryam/mri-space/studies/SM_PDM_2cat/unpackdata/120421_xu_SM2CAT_06/bold/Cat_all/taskvsfix/sig.nii.gz
>                              -overlay-reg
>                                  
>          
> /Users/maryam/mri-space/studies/SM_PDM_2cat/unpackdata/120421_xu_SM2CAT_06/bold/register.dof6.dat
>                             -scalebarflag 1
>
>                             tksurfer teal_tiger_kcb lh inflated -curv
>          -overlay
>                                  
>          
> /Users/maryam/mri-space/studies/SM_PDM_2cat/unpackdata/120421_xu_SM2CAT_06/bold/Cat_all/taskvsfix/sig.nii.gz
>                              -overlay-reg
>                                  
>          
> /Users/maryam/mri-space/studies/SM_PDM_2cat/unpackdata/120421_xu_SM2CAT_06/bold/register.dof6.dat
>                             -scalebarflag 1
>
>                             I have copy pasted the inflated anatomical
>         folder
>                 of the
>                             subject from another computer. Is it
>         possible that
>                 some
>                             specific files are not copied properly? I dont
>                 know where
>                             are the files that have the information for
>                 registration
>                             of the anatomical brain to the inflated
>         suface. My
>                 guess
>                             is that is where the problem is. What do
>         you think?
>
>
>                             Maryam
>
>
>
>                             On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Douglas N
>         Greve
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>
>                                 Hi Maryam, it seems very strange that one
>                 hemisphere
>                             looks ok but
>                                 other looks bad. In fact, I'd say that
>         it cannot
>                             happen. The
>                                 differences are not likely to be due to
>                 version. Can
>                             you double
>                                 check that the tksurfer commands for
>         the lh
>                 and rh are
>                             the same
>                                 (except for lh and rh, of course)
>                                 doug
>
>
>
>
>                                 On 08/22/2012 09:13 PM, Maryam Vaziri
>         Pashkam
>                 wrote:
>
>                                     Hi Doug,
>
>                                     I am having a problem with
>         tksurfer overlay
>                             function. I ran
>                                     one analysis in freesurfer 5.1 on
>         a mac
>                 machine
>                             and I cannot
>                                     properly load it on the surface. The
>                 analysis was
>                             performed in
>                                     the native space. When I use
>         tksurfer to
>                 load the
>                             analysis on
>                                     the surface using the overlay
>         function I
>                 dont get
>                             an error but
>                                     the output image just shows small
>         dots on the
>                             surface instead
>                                     of patches of activity. It looks
>         like the
>                             registration is not
>                                     correct. I checked the
>         registration on the
>                 volume
>                             and it looks
>                                     fine to me. This only happens with
>         one of my
>                             subject and only
>                                     on his left hemisphere. I have
>         attached
>                 two tif
>                             images called
>                                     lhnative.tif and rhnative.tif that
>         show the
>                             results. I also
>                                     ran the analysis on the surface
>         for both
>                 left and
>                             right
>                                     hemisphere, and it looks fine
>         (lhsurf.tif and
>                             rhsurf.tif files
>                                     attached).
>                                     Any Idea how to solve this problem? My
>                 guess is
>                             that the error
>                                     is in the registration of
>         anatomical volume to
>                             anatomical
>                                     surface in the left hemisphere of this
>                 specific
>                             subject, but I
>                                     dont know how to solve this issue.
>
>                                     here is the code that I use to
>         load the
>                 data on
>                             the surface:
>
>                                     tksurfer teal_tiger_kcb lh
>         inflated -curv
>                  -overlay
>                                                      
>         
> /Users/maryam/mri-space/studies/SM_PDM_2cat/unpackdata/120421_xu_SM2CAT_06/bold/Cat_all/taskvsfix/sig.nii.gz
>                                      -overlay-reg
>                                                      
>         
> /Users/maryam/mri-space/studies/SM_PDM_2cat/unpackdata/120421_xu_SM2CAT_06/bold/register.dof6.dat
>                                     -scalebarflag 1
>
>                                     Just a note that the recon-all was
>                 performed in
>                             freesurfer 4.5
>                                     and the analysis on freesurfer
>         5.1. Any chance
>                             this might have
>                                     caused the error?
>
>                                     Thanks,
>                                     Maryam
>
>
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