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I'm dealing with an issue in my subjects' recon-all output where the white matter surface extends into the gray matter, especially in the parietal and posterior temporal regions. This is caused by the wm.mgz including too much gray matter. This issue occurs to some degree in every subject's scans. This can be fixed with extensive wm volume edits but since this appears to be a systematic problem, I wanted to find a solution that could be applied to every subject, possibly in the recon-all pipeline. I've tried using an expert parameters 2 different ways to no avail. I've changed the -wlo values in mri_segment but it removes wm voxels in the temporal lobe from the wm.mgz surface. I've tried adding the -prune and -gentle flags to mri_normalize but that appears to make the problem worse. Is there a better approach to try? If necessary, I can send a subject's recon-all output.
-- Brian Biekman Graduate Student, University of Houston Clinical Psychology, Neuropsychology Concentration Laboratory of Early Experience and Development (LEED) bdbiekman@uh.edu Brian.Biekman@times.uh.edu