Hi,

freesurfer-x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-stable5-20110522

$Id: mris_preproc,v 1.66 2012/12/06 16:06:17 mreuter Exp $

after recon-all i ran recon-all -s $subject -qcache

this generates lh.area.fsaverage.mgh which only contains values 0 and higher while negative values exist for the lh.area of the same subject.

is this normal and if so, why?

thanks,
-joost