Dear all,
I am interested in looking at developmental changes in the brain during adolescence period in normal subjects and also comparing our controls to our clinical patients. Examples in the longitudinal processing stream tutorial have only mentioned volume and thickness, so I was wondering if area is also something we could look at and analyze. I successfully generated rate of change, spc, pc2 etc .mgz files in the post processing stage using 'long_mris_slopes' using '--meas area', but I just wanted to make sure if rate of change in surface area using freesurfer longitudinal stream is something we can report in our ms. I haven't found any papers reporting changes in the surface area using fs long stream so I was wondering if this measure is good to go or if it is something that is still work in progress
Cheers, Yoon