By default the white matter, but you can compute the pail area if you want
Cheers
Bruce 

> On Aug 13, 2017, at 8:21 PM, Zhiliang Long <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bruce
>    Thanks very much for your suggestion. Just one more question that I am 
> confused with. Is the surface area calculated based on the white matter 
> surface or pial surface ?
>   Thanks for your time.
> 
> Best
> Zhiliang
> 
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> At 2017-08-13 22:47:07, "Bruce Fischl" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Hi Zhiliang
> >
> >the thickness is the average of the min distance from gray-to-white and 
> >white-to-gray at each vertex. The surface area is the average area of the 
> >triangles attached to a vertex (divided by 3 I think).
> >
> >cheers
> >Bruce
> >
> >
> >On Sun, 13 Aug 2017, Zhiliang Long wrote:
> >
> >> Dear FS experts:
> >>      I am writting to ask for help about the computation of global mean
> >> thickness. On the FAQ page, one suggestion is that the global mean 
> >> thickness
> >> is equal to the (lh.thickness*lh.surfarea + rh.thickness.rh.surfarea) /
> >> (lh.surfarea+rh.surfarea). I am wondering how the ?h.thickness and
> >> ?h.surfarea are calculated. 
> >>     Any suggestions are appreciated.
> >>     Thanks for your time.
> >> 
> >> Best
> >> Zhiliang Long
> >> 
> >> 
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