I'm sure that there are a number of ways you could do it. I would suggest, however, making a coronal cut for your frontal labels at Talairach coordinate y = 26, so that only ‘prefrontal’ regions are included - this conforms to the conservative Talairach criteria described by Rajkowska and Goldman-Rakic (1995).

From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu [freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] on behalf of Anna Jonsson [ajonsson09@gmail.com]
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Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] prefrontal cortex label

hi, anyone can help with this?

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
I don't know. Maybe someone else can weigh in.
doug

On 11/04/2014 07:38 AM, Anna Jonsson wrote:
> thank you. which labels are normally included as prefrontal cortex for
> freesurfer purposes?
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Douglas N Greve
> <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>
>
>     You can use mri_annotation2label to break up the annotation into
>     individual labels, then use mris_label2annot to recombine selected
>     labels into an annotation or use mri_merge_label to merge them into a
>     single label. All you have to do is decide with labels define
>     prefontal
>     doug
>
>
>     On 10/23/2014 10:25 AM, Anna Jonsson wrote:
>     > Dear group,
>     >
>     > Is there a way to create a prefrontal cortex label in fresurfer? if
>     > so, please tell me the exact steps to do so, I am very confused.
>     >
>     >
>     > Thank you,
>     >
>     > Anna
>     >
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