Thanks bruce for your response. I am trying to expand the pial surface (see attached image) in order to estimate the GM/WM boundary properly. I have successfully expanded the white matter but when i tried the mris_expand scripts for pial surface (mris_expand -thickness lh.pial 0.5 lh.newpial), the output looked identical to the input. Please can you direct me on how to successfully achieve this for the pial surface and how to incorporate my changes (expanded surfaces) into recon-all. Thanks. 
Best, 
Paul  

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Bruce Fischl <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
Hi Paul

it's hard to answer your questions without knowing what you are trying to achieve

cheers
Bruce

On Wed, 11 Jan 2017, miracle ozzoude wrote:

Hello freesurfer, 
I have several questions about mris_expand command. I know it can be used to expand or shrink a point on a surface by a fixed amount or distance. My questions are: 
1) Can it be used to expand the pial surface? if yes, please can you confirm if this is the right script= mris_expand -thickness rh.pial 0.5 rh.newpial. If the script is
wrong, please can you give me a directions on how to change it and what new flags to add. 
2) When I looked up mris_expand description, -thickness was the only flag displayed. Are there other hidden flags? If yes, where can I find them?
3) After expanding ?lh.white and ?h.pial, what steps of recon-all should i run in other to incorporate my changes? Thank you. 

Best, 
Paul


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