Dear FreeSurfer community,

Despite tkmedit being discontinued, I am still using this to make surface edits to my T1s. The main reason is that when I use Freeview and erase skull/dura, Freeview creates this blue label wherever I erase outside of the brain surface. The label is called left (or right) ‘-Cerebral-Exterior’.

If I edit in tkmedit, this label is not created.

I fear that this label may cause problems if the list of labels in FreeSurfer (particularly 5.1) does not contain this ‘Cerebral Exterior’ label. I suppose this has been addressed in the more recent developments, and theoretically if I use FreeSurfer 6 to process and Freeview to edit then this wouldn’t be a concern.

Wondering if anyone has encountered this, and whether it was a problem or not for you.

Thank you so much as always for any thoughts or recommendations you may be able to provide.

Best,

Fred