Hi Raul, 
Thank you for your answer. Yes, the aparc2009 should work fine. 
But if I may suggest something, I think that just changing the label name to 
Sup. Parietal + Sup. Occipital Cortex would be a good way to warn the users 
about the extend of this label. 
Best Regards. 
Paulo 

----- Mensagem original -----

> De: "Rahul Desikan" <rahuldesi...@gmail.com>
> Para: "paulo bazan" <paulo.ba...@usp.br>,
> freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
> Enviadas: Quarta-feira, 11 de Março de 2015 12:42:31
> Assunto: Re: [Freesurfer] aparc superior occipital lobe labeled as
> superior parietal (fwd)

> Hi Paulo,

> This is a good question/observation. From a neuroradiology
> perspective, we
> often struggle with the lateral boundary between the occpital and
> parietal
> cortices, often referring to these areas as 'parieto-occipital
> region'. The
> medial boundary is a lot easier given the parieto-occipital incisure
> (sulcus). Nevertheless, I think it would be worthwhile to revisit
> this
> region (along with others in my parcellation atlas) to see if we can
> come up with a more
> robust delineation. For example, I suspect we may be able to carry
> forth the
> parieto-occipital incisure into the lateral hemisphere thus serving
> as a
> guide to differentiate between the two cortices laterally. For your
> immediate purposes, I suspect the aparc2009 atlas would be better
> for evaluating the posterolateral occipital and parietal cortices.

> Warm regards,

> Rahul

> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > 
> 
> > > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:44:40 -0300 (BRT)
> > 
> 
> > > From: paulo.ba...@usp.br
> > 
> 
> > > Reply-To: Freesurfer support list
> > 
> 
> > > < freesur...@nmr.mgh.harvard. edu >
> > 
> 
> > > To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
> > 
> 
> > > Subject: [Freesurfer] aparc superior occipital lobe labeled as
> > 
> 
> > > superior parietal
> > 
> 

> > > Hi everybody
> > 
> 

> > > I was looking at my subjects and I noted that the superior
> > 
> 
> > > occipital region
> > 
> 
> > > is labeled as superior parietal cortex in the aparc parcelation.
> > 
> 

> > > Then I discovered that the "bert" subject, that comes as
> > 
> 
> > > reference with
> > 
> 
> > > freesurfer, and that the fsaverage also have their superior
> > 
> 
> > > occipital cortex
> > 
> 
> > > labeled as superior parietal cortex.
> > 
> 

> > > I just asked the freesurfer instructors at an organized
> > 
> 
> > > freesurfer course
> > 
> 
> > > and was intructed to post this observation to the list.
> > 
> 

> > > I guess this happens because there is no superior occipital
> > 
> 
> > > label in the
> > 
> 
> > > aparc partcelation. The aparc2009 has it, and the occipital and
> > 
> 
> > > parietal
> > 
> 
> > > cortices are labeled correctly.
> > 
> 

> > > Has anyone noticed this before? I guess that if the parietal
> > 
> 
> > > and/or
> > 
> 
> > > occipital lobe are the regions of interest of the study, the
> > 
> 
> > > aparc2009
> > 
> 
> > > parcelation should be used.
> > 
> 

> > > Best regards
> > 
> 
> > > Paulo Bazán
> > 
> 

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