Hi Longchuan
I'm not sure what space the volume average is constructed in - Doug would know. Probably talairach, in which case it won't match the surfaces well. Can you send along your mris_fill command line? It shouldn't produce an empty volume. There's no reason to look at the inflated surfaces in the volume though - they have no volumetric meaning.
cheers Bruce
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Longchuan Li wrote:
Hi, Bruce
Sorry for the late reply as I was trying to figure it out by myself. I mean the average of the subjects in the volume space that were used for generating the surface template. Actually I kind of found a volume average in the mri folder named as T1.mgz that seems to correspond to the surface template for the non-human primates. Perhaps because my ?h.white and ?.pial surface files do not have the identical origins as that of the volume template, when I used the function "mri_surf2vol" to project the mgh surface file to the volume average, I always got the outputs telling me there is 0 hits. I tried to diagnose it by projecting the ?h.white and ?h.pial to the volume using "mri_fill" and I got an empty volume. I then tried to project ?h.inflated to the volume space using the "mri_fill" and this time, I got a mask in the output volume space. Therefore, i suspect that there is a mismatch of the origins between the ?h.white and the volume template in the mri folder.
Could you please show me what are the best strategies to correctly project the mgh file to the volume template in the 'mri' folder?
Many thanks
Longchuan
From: Bruce Fischl fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu To: Longchuan Li leonado78@yahoo.com Cc: FreeSurfer freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 4:56 PM Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] make a volume template from the surface-based template for non-human primates
Hi Longchuan
what kind of volume template do you mean? Bruce On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Longchuan Li wrote:
Hi, FreeSurfer experts
I have a question regarding making a volume template based on the surface template for non-human primates. I have made a surface template using a group of monkeys and now, we want to see the result, which is a mgh
surface
file, on the coronal slices of the template. So I am planning to generate
a
volume template corresponding to the surface template and then project the mgh file to the volume for viewing. Could someone tell me what is the best way to generate such a volume template?
Many thanks in advance!
Longchuan
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