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Hello Freesurfer developers,

I am trying to map a 4D volumetric EPI image between different surfaces and I'd 
like a little bit of guidance as I am slightly confused about some of the 
outputs of freesurfer.

I have a preprocessed nifti EPI image in subject's anatomical space. First, I'd 
like to map this timeseries image to subject's native surface. Here is how I am 
currently doing this operation:

1 - Create a register.dat by using fsl identity matrix since I am already in 
the native space:
tkregister2_cmdl --mov <epi> --fsl <ident.mat> --targ <rawavg.nii> --noedit 
--reg <register.dat>
2 - Then, using this register.dat to make surfaces from the 4D timeseries with:
mri_vol2surf --mov <epi> --ref <anat> --reg <register.dat> --hemi lh --o 
<output_surface.mgz>
I used these functions in the past to map statistical images to surface, but it 
might not be the right thing to do for timeseries in which case please let me 
know. Assuming this is correct though, next I want to move this native surface 
timeseries to fsaverage surface. I am pretty sure the calculations are in 
there, but I am not really sure which ones I need to use and with which 
freesurfer commands I can do this.

Lastly, I came across this freesurfer page 
https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsAnat-to-NativeAnat which talks 
about fsaverage to native surface conversion and the examples there made me a 
bit confused. Aren't the surface files in the surf directory (e.g lh.pial, 
lh.inflated) already in the native space ? Do I need to create a lh.pial.native 
using these commands to overlay my timeseries image ?

Best,
Ozzy



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