can you send us the full command line and screen output? You should not
need a registration

cheers
Bruce
On Sun, 17 Feb 2019, Barletta, Valeria wrote:

> I need to turn my lh and rh .mgh files (they are in the subject's space) to a single .nii.gz file. Does
> this process require a registration? I actually tried to use --identity instead of --trgsubject, but I got
> the same error, "Option --identity unknown"
>
>
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> __________________________________________________________________________________________________________
> From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> on behalf of Bruce
> Fischl <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2019 10:56:33 AM
> To: Freesurfer support list
> Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] surf2vol ERROR  
> but do you need a registration? What space do you want the volume to be
> in? If the standard FS "conformed" space you don't need a regisration (you
> can specify --identity <subject ID). Or you can specify a registration
> with --reg or --lta. In any case, mri_surf2vol has pretty good
> documentation (thanks Doug!). Check out mri_surf2vol --help
>
> cheers
> Bruce
>
>
> On
> Sun, 17 Feb 2019, Barletta, Valeria wrote:
>
> > Oh I just used that option instead of providing a registration file, which I don't have.
> > I need to turn the two surfaces into a single volume.
> >
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> > From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> on behalf of Bruce
> > Fischl <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2019 6:58:46 PM
> > To: Freesurfer support list
> > Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] surf2vol ERROR  
> > Hi Vale
> >
> > mri_surf2vol is to take take from the surface to the volume within one
> > subject. Why do you need a trgsubject? You can compute the registration
> > with e.g. bbregister. Maybe I'm not understanding what you are trying to
> > do....
> >
> > cheers
> > Bruce
> >
> > On Sat, 16 Feb 2019, Barletta, Valeria wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Dear all, 
> > >
> > > I am trying to register surfaces to a volume by this command:
> > >
> > > mri_surf2vol --subject MS089_R01_29 --hemi rh --rh.MS089_R01_29.subjspace.mgh --hemi lh --surfval
> > > lh.MS089_R01_29.subjspace.mgh --o CME_MS089_R01_29.nii.gz --merge combined-CL.nii.gz --trgsubj
> > > MS089_R01_29
> > >
> > >
> > > And am obtaining this error:
> > >
> > > ERROR: Option --trgsubject unknown
> > >
> > >
> > > That is actually the name of my subject in $FREESURFER_HOME
> > >
> > > Also, I do not have a registration file so I used the option --trgsubject
> > >
> > > Is this correct? Why am I getting that error?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Vale
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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