Hi Doug,
mri_label2vol says it creates an mgz from a label, I need to do the reverse.  I'm starting with a mask_MNI.mgz (brought from FSL's MNI space via mri_convert) and I need to be able to use that mask to extract thickness from the individual subject.

Also, mni152reg fails because it expects to write a tmp file into an FSL directory rather than a Freesurfer directory. The FSL standards directory is write protected for obvious reasons.  Can I redirect the temporary file? Error message:
“mkdir: /usr/local/fsl/data/standard/tmp.fslregister.9446: Permission denied”


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From: Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] FSL masks applied to Freesurfer surfaces?
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Hi Ruth, run mni152reg for each subject to create a registration from 
the subject to the 152. Then use mri_label2vol to map the mask into each 
subject's space.

doug



On 10/05/2013 04:08 PM, Ruth Carper wrote:
> Doug,
> I'd like to get them into the individual's space, but I assume I have 
> to get there by way of fsaverage?  Final goal is to have a regional 
> thickness measure for each individual subject.
> Ruth Carper
>
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> Do you want to transfer them to fsaverage space or to the individual
> anatomical space?
> doug
>
>
> On 10/04/2013 01:42 AM, Ruth Carper wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'd like to take some masks that I have in MNI standard space in FSL
> > and map them to Freesurfer surface space.  The goal is to extract
> > measures of average cortical thickness (or area or etc) for those
> > regions for each subject.  Is there a standard way to do this?
> >
> >
> >
 
Ruth Carper, PhD
Assoc. Project Scientist, UCSD
Adjunct Professor, SDSU