Hi Barbara,
Sorry for the late response. 
- the type of sequence does not matter much as long as the contrast between gray and white matter is good.
- the resolution is important, because you need to be able to see the internal thin layer of white matter in the hippocampus to be able to infer its internal structure; otherwise, the segmentation of the internal boundarie will indeed be dominated by the prior knowledge, rather than the intensities.
- the algorithm operates at 0.33mm (isotropic) resolution; the segmentation is provided both at that resolution and at 1mm isotropic (FS space); please see the details in the wiki:
https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/HippocampalSubfields
If you send me the T2FLAIR and T2STIR images for a sample subject, I can take a look and give you more accurate answers ;-)
Cheers,
Eugenio

Juan Eugenio Iglesias
Postdoctoral researcher BCBL
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From: "Barbara Kreilkamp" <bakk.hbg@googlemail.com>
To: "Freesurfer support list" <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 5:28:44 PM
Subject: [Freesurfer] hippo subfield segmentation new beta version (version        6)

Dear all,

Would you please help me on this one?
Thank you,
best wishes,
Barbara


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Subject: hippo subfield segmentation new beta version (version 6)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 11:45:02 +0100
From: Barbara Kreilkamp <bakk.hbg@gmail.com>
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Dear all,

I've been reading the manuscript on version 6 freesurfer hippocampal 
subfield segmentation "A computational atlas of the hippocampal 
formation using ex vivo, ultra-high resolution MRI: application to 
adaptive segmentation of in vivo MRI"

Can you please tell me if the type of sequence (e.g. coronal T2FLAIR vs 
T2STIR) and voxel sizes of .4x.4x2mm^3 vs .4x.4x4mm^3 really make a 
difference for this multi-modal algorithm?
I previously ran recon-all on 1mm isotropic T1-w scans all with similar 
contrast.

It seems that the mesh fitting in version 6 is driven by the relation of 
the subfields to each other rather than by contrast or signal 
intensities; and also I notice the algorithm brings everything to 
isotropic space anyway.

Is this correct?
Do you see a major methodological issue when using T2FLAIR (.4x.4x4mm^3) 
and T2STIR (.4x.4x2mm^3) subfield volumes together?

Thank you very much,
Best wishes,
Barbara

P.s. as a side-note, I've not noticed any major differences in subfield 
segmentations visually, when comparing segmentations via these two 
different T2 scans.



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