[Freesurfer] flattening

Hi We are trying to create flattened surfaces for doing surface based statistical analysis of ventral temporal cortex, but the flattening method described in the freesurfer manual creates cuts right through this region. It would be better for us if we had a contiguous region of VT cortex to ana

[Freesurfer] inflated and pial node mismatch

I wasn't able to run the afni programs 3dVol2Surf or MapIcosahedron on the Freesurfer surfaces since the number of nodes in the smoothwm vs pial surfaces differed: ** invalid surfaces, different # nodes (166167,166157) How can we best resolve this difference in the node numbers? thanks, -Ron