Thank you Martin,

This is more than enough.

Jon
On Nov 6, 2013, at 3:42 PM, Martin Reuter <mreu...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Hi Jon,
> 
> Usually you would select a specific subject to be the target, sometimes that 
> subject is in the mid age range, etc. Also sometimes people remove that 
> subject from the study to not introduce a bias.
> 
> In most cases, however, people simply use fsaverage unless they have a reason 
> to switch. 
> 
> I don't know how you create your own 'average' surface. Maybe someone else 
> can answer that.
> 
> Best, Martin
> 
> 
> On 11/06/2013 02:57 PM, Jonathan Holt wrote:
>> OH,
>> 
>> I see, then how would I generate my own study average, if I wanted to do so?
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 6, 2013, at 2:48 PM, Martin Reuter <mreu...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Jon,
>>> 
>>> that is just a placeholder, indicating that this can be your own average in 
>>> a real study. You can simply use 'fsaverage' for it, now.
>>> 
>>> Best, Martin
>>> 
>>> On Nov 6, 2013, at 2:22 PM, Jonathan Holt <whats...@umich.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Thanks a ton Martin,
>>>> 
>>>> can you possibly clue me into where I could find study_average?
>>>> 
>>>> best,
>>>> jon
>>>> On Nov 6, 2013, at 2:16 PM, Martin Reuter <mreu...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Jon,
>>>>> 
>>>>> passing the --qdec-long flag to mris_preproc will automatically generate 
>>>>> the right names (e.g. the .long. directories) and take the data from 
>>>>> there. You can pass the study_average vie the --target flag. The default 
>>>>> is to use fsaverage which is distributed with FreeSurfer. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> So mris_preproc maps the thickness maps to the subject average, while the 
>>>>> mris_surf2surf command is for smoothing the stack of thickness maps and 
>>>>> generates the …_sm10.mgh file.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best, Martin
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Nov 6, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Jonathan Holt <whats...@umich.edu> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> FS experts,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have two questions, when running mris_preproc and mri_surf2surf should 
>>>>>> I be passing these any of the .long directories created with recon-all 
>>>>>> -long? As I read through the tutorial I’m missing their significance in 
>>>>>> the analysis section of the longitudinal stream. It seems like fsaverage 
>>>>>> is being used (I’m not sure when that was even generated)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Secondly, I see that mris_preproc outputs a thickness.mgh file, but I’m 
>>>>>> wondering where, in your tutorial examples lh.thickness_sm10.mgh comes 
>>>>>> from/is located. Found in 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> mri_surf2surf --hemi lh --s fsaverage --sval lh.thickness.mgh --tval 
>>>>>> lh.thickness_sm10.mgh --fwhm-trg 10 --cortex —noreshape
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> best,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> jon
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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