They are not exactly the same. However, if you run mri_vol2surf with 
--surf white50 --projfrac 0 it will be identical (where white50 is the 
surface create with mris_expand)

doug

On 04/04/2014 05:34 AM, Righart, Ruthger wrote:
> Hi Markus,
> Thank you, excellent tool and gives exactly what I was searching for!
> Is the resulting surface the same for mris_expand taken at 50% as the
> one that is used in mri_vol2surf with flag projfrac 0.5? I wondered if
> something is done differently as processing time for mris_expand is much
> longer (at about 14 min.) as compared with mri_vol2surf (couple of
> minutes). Any ideas on this would be welcome!
> Ruthger
>
> Le 2014-04-03 16:39, Markus Gschwind a écrit :
>> Hi Ruthger!
>>
>> Use mris_expand to create a surf inside or outside of white
>>
>> e.g.
>>
>> mris_expand surf/lh.white -1 surf/lh.white_1mm_inside
>> # use positive values for outside ?h.white border
>>
>> mris_expand -thickness surf/lh.white -1
>> surf/lh.white_in100%_thickness
>> # this samples in % of GM thickness, use positive values for outside
>> white
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Markus
>>
>> 2014-04-03 16:24 GMT+02:00 Righart, Ruthger
>> <righ...@lrz.tu-muenchen.de>:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> mri_vol2surf has the flags --projfrac and --projdist. If I
>>> understand
>>> these flags correctly, the volume is sampled inbetween the
>>> white-matter
>>> surface and the pial surface (for ex. --projfrac 0.5 is midway). Is
>>> there a possibility in tkmedit/Freeview to display with a colored
>>> line
>>> for ex. --projfrac 0.5 for a given subject? (actually similar to
>>> what
>>> was done by Salat et al., NeuroImage 2009, 48, p23, fig 1A,
>>> http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/articles/salat_2009.pdf [1]).
>>>
>>> Thank you very much in advance for your help!
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>>
>>> Ruthger
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