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I am assessing different morphological aspects of the cortex including sulcal depth but am struggling to understand how this is calculated in FreeSurfer. I see that a previous correspondence (https://secure-web.cisco.com/130Tf81zvPk_603DeJ5a0ZZo4MNfYCZ60im_ZWCS7hPT0Boh03RcosHar-VFCAEsXxp8DP0KbJ3PcQplwB_8w36CyyD-mLjT9upNz28bLQH_7N8OwIfg-aWBDPQ56GH8N_KLqZD8x5iRCvx8VrbvV_o9uly23JxJwE5BKM0nv55XY2UeUv0Tu1oQMN_XvWQ1irmsE2b0gPa1igaVIQx7cls7ZUiOsgaZ-OTmbCH_q7LOl6qyRRhYbxg8Zyeiye7JIFmm6Ca2JzpSDCsP7gF7-pBdbgRNzHFlfbV93cwmlJpajxIIrgsbKnbSy8RYSkKuuj2x3Xg0mpbyjGxQP00-zdA/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mail-archive.com%2Ffreesurfer%40nmr.mgh.harvard.edu%2Fmsg43772.html) points to this being described on page 199 within the “Cortical surface-based analysis II” – paper, by Fischl et al. but to my understanding it only describes the inflation process. Is it so that as concave areas like sulci move outward, while convex areas like gyri move inward during this process, this movement is somehow quantified and used to calculate sulcal depth? I also see a previous article stating that “..Freesurfer's sulcal depth measurement measures how far a vertex moves during an inflation operation”, also referencing the same Fischl paper. While other folding measures like LGI (https://secure-web.cisco.com/1rZbD04F-L_WBb_-7dP8B298OK6uZo1zDlLneMBGyND_ivL2gPkiZTug0WyglfVkOxxiC02F2Fh9blwiaSive2lw9mQNXXar3KvM6viLVnbE0k8g7scdmmyXJnbPb5wzV7dorN16_yT8hpRYKkSnOgVJPTiYFr6imCXCw0oqSa3vw69icYlZlp0nrJEZ8CQI6THyg7T7c18tXbLwhC255w6lGcKFdcqQrkDtTxdDJ2m2rKsF8kH0AyALHcPwzFqoW5lVOAgzmbhZXo18NET-ucEVyQLZkek29qz2zU84XKJGF_9yRPSlYxRMomM5dW00gbbDpAYbhEk1jwn-WXxTb6w/https%3A%2F%2Fsurfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu%2Ffswiki%2FLGI and curvature (https://secure-web.cisco.com/1bY39JsrtiDKpPFJNg4aHhIchmGuug1PSRGvTczzLFMkNC8ifemRnYXnUDdmvRVVZ4BQmPxQvIJYXoUo14A2_GWqoJNuEnMk1x13Nj6Nu8dkE12w8VdN62Wvy5k2ihHSWjarOV9aYXxP7z56hbzOv-OIIfyD4jdXX65nYsgl0gy63HZMpxvtIe7E4aREI07xP6OJiWKOkIBQcg4rhaXvSYofqQl930k1EpdawV8TMZBGr7tPI8p4Q8x99pg9LtQAkPs9_1zpMUeiIRrajetzyPwuc597BofExcrVipWR3eBC0nVk_aC7UjmoHJciUUPE-q2SMcd8zX2FMOXGT2RJfng/https%3A%2F%2Fsurfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu%2Ffswiki%2FMeanCurvature) are neatly covered, I unfortunately could not find the same descriptions for sulcal depth. Any clarifications would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance! Kind regards Linn Norbom
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