[Freesurfer] Changing and Saving Overlay Config in Tksurfer

2010-09-29 Thread Adam Nitenson
Hi Freesurfers, I was wondering if there was a way to save any configurations you make to functional overlays (sig.mgh / sig.nii) in Tksurfer so you don't need to change them again. When I go to View --> Configure --> Overlay, it seems that the default is "Linear Opaque" with Min = 2.0 and Max = 5

Re: [Freesurfer] Converting an FSL label to Freesurfer space

2010-09-29 Thread Douglas N Greve
I assume the label is a binary mask in MNI152? If so, use mri_label2vol and spec the label as a segmenation, use $FREESURFER_HOME/average/mni152.register.dat as the registration, specify --invertmtx, and use the orig.mgz in fsaverage as the template. I *think* this should work. doug mmoayedi

Re: [Freesurfer] Changing and Saving Overlay Config in Tksurfer

2010-09-29 Thread Douglas N Greve
You can set the min, mid, and slope from the command-line with -fmin, -fmid, and -fslope (it computes the max based on those 3). The min and the max you can set with env variables, like: setenv FS_TKFTHRESH 2 setenv FS_TKFMAX 3 this will apply to both tksurfer and tkmedit. Note that when the MA

Re: [Freesurfer] Converting an FSL label to Freesurfer space

2010-09-29 Thread Douglas N Greve
The output has to be a volume (eg, nii or mgh), not a label. If you need a label, run mri_cor2label on the output. doug Massieh Moayedi wrote: > Hi Doug, > > I tried it, and it seems that it's working until the very last step. > > Here's the output I get: > > > $ mri_label2vol --seg > '/storag

[Freesurfer] Surface Area and Cortical Volume

2010-09-29 Thread Jeff Sadino
Hello, As I understand it, the surface area measure is not a real surface area measure. It is more a measure of how much the brain has to be stretched in order to get into a common space. My question is that if the cortical volume is calculated by multiplying the thickness and the surface area (

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area and Cortical Volume

2010-09-29 Thread Don Hagler
The area maps do contain the actual surface area of each vertex with units of mm^2. The problem is that the area at a given vertex depends on how many vertices a given patch of cortex was divided into, which is initially uniform but then varies arbitrarily due to topology correction, rend

Re: [Freesurfer] Surface Area and Cortical Volume

2010-09-29 Thread Douglas Greve
The surface area is the actual area of the surface. I think you may be thinking of the jacobian, which measures the amount of stretching needed to register with the surface atlas. Total cortical volume is available from the "header" of the aseg.stats file, and that is a surface-based measure.