Dear Martin,

Thank you so much for your reply.

I searched the freesurfer mailing list, and indeed it seemed that optical chiasm should be left out. However, optic chiasm is made up of axons, which automatically qualifies as "white matter". Is this a contradiction?

Thank you!

Sincerely,
Ye



On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Martin Kavec <martin.kavec@gmail.com> wrote:
It's an optic chiasm, crossing of optic nervers.

Martin

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On 19.7.2013, at 20:28, ye tian <tianye730@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear freesurfers,
>
> I would like to confirm that the circled region in whitematter.png is not white matter. I initially manually deleted the white matter in wm.mgz for a few subjects. Now I see that it is such a common problem and I start to loose confidence in my editing. Would anyone please give me a second opinion?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Sincerely,
> Ye
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