[Freesurfer] change in default GCA file

2008-07-10 Thread Michael Harms
Hello, Comparing the recon-all script for FS v4.0.2 against FS v4.0.5, I noticed that somewhere between those versions the "default" GCA files changed from ones dated 2007-08-08 to 2008-03-26. Is this related to the "new feature" of FS v4.0.3 described on the Release Notes as "talairach_with_skul

[Freesurfer] Cortical thickness issues

2008-07-10 Thread Ryan Scotton
Hi all, I am fairly new to FreeSurfer and I've just finished initial runs on about 140 MRI images. Now, my job is to go through and do a little QC that helps ensure that the cortical thickness values are as accurate as possible. Now, I have a few questions: 1. Am I right in assuming that cort

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical thickness issues

2008-07-10 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Ryan, 1. Yes, it the average of the shortest distance between white and pial, and between pial and white at each point. 2. Yes, in part although other things go into it. The wm.mgz is a starting point (described in many technical papers). 3. The control points will only fix some issues.

Re: [Freesurfer] change in default GCA file

2008-07-10 Thread Nick Schmansky
Mike, The 2008-03-26 GCA atlas was built with the code which is more robust in the presence of background noise, and also code to catch some missing priors. The results of Dice coefficient testing, against manually segmented subjects, indicated that this atlas is identical to the 2007-08-08 atlas

Re: [Freesurfer] Cortical thickness issues

2008-07-10 Thread David Perlman
Just to clarify, "at each point" means at each same-numbered node in the mesh for the white and pial surfaces. (Right?) What has never been clear to me is, in what sense are the same- numbered nodes in those two meshes "the same point"? Is this accepted as a convenient convention based on

[Freesurfer] How to show one-tailed t-contrast?

2008-07-10 Thread Juergen Haenggi
Dear FS experts We have done some FS analysis and would like to show only only the positive contrast. How to do this? We have already run mri_glmfit. Thanks in advance Best regards Juergen --- Juergen Haenggi Ph.D. (Dr. des.) Division of N