To try to understand the problem as to why the brainmask.mgz and T1.mgz files are not the same size, I decided to skip that step and make edits to the white matter only. At this point, all files (i.e. T1.mgz, brainmask.mgz and the wm.mgz) have the same dimensions 256^3. 

I removed offending voxels from the wm.mgz file using Freeview as per the instructions found on this website: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/WhiteMatterEdits_freeview. For all participants except 4, the modifications did not result in in errors. However, for the same 4 participants that had problems with the brainmask.mgz file, I have problems with the wm edits after running :

recon-all -autorecon2-wm -autorecon3 -subjid S08_FS

This is the error that I got:

ERROR: mri_segment-MRIcheckVolDims: volume1 height=255 != volume2 height=256.

Darwin Isabelles-iMac.local 12.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.6.0: Wed Mar 18 16:23:48 PDT 2015; root:xnu-2050.48.19~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

recon-all -s S08_FS exited with ERRORS at Tue Aug  9 13:44:25 EDT 2016

It appears that for these 4 participants that are problematic, any corrections made to the brainmask or wm.mgz file changes the dimensions of those files. 

The original wm.mgz file had the following dimensions: 

mri_info /Users/Isabelle/Desktop/wm/S08/wm.mgz 
Volume information for /Users/Isabelle/Desktop/wm/S08/wm.mgz
          type: MGH
    dimensions: 256 x 256 x 256
   voxel sizes: 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000
          type: UCHAR (0)
           fov: 256.000
           dof: 0
        xstart: -128.0, xend: 128.0
        ystart: -128.0, yend: 128.0
        zstart: -128.0, zend: 128.0

whereas the modified wm.mgz file has the following dimensions:

mri_info /Volumes/Flynn/ProjetPhonoBehavioralTMS/Freesurfer/S08_FS/mri/wm.mgz 
Volume information for /Volumes/Flynn/ProjetPhonoBehavioralTMS/Freesurfer/S08_FS/mri/wm.mgz
          type: MGH
    dimensions: 255 x 255 x 256
   voxel sizes: 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000
          type: UCHAR (0)
           fov: 256.000
           dof: 0
        xstart: -127.5, xend: 127.5
        ystart: -127.5, yend: 127.5
        zstart: -128.0, zend: 128.0


I am installing Freesurfer on another Mac running El Capitan to see if the problem persists. Any ideas as to what is causing the problem?

Thanks,

Isabelle


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