1. Not if all you want to do is surface registration. If you want to do surface and volume you will need to do both.
2. You can check the results by mapping the curvature of the subjects into the commmon space and seeing if they align (I think mri_surf2surf can be used for this).
3. No, as recon-all won't use anything from your new coordinate system. It will only be useful for group analyses
cheers Bruce
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014, yufeng huang wrote:
I followed the process of creating a registration template fromscratch(GW)(https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/SurfaceRegAndTemplate s) to do the surface-based registration. My question are as followed: 1 I want to know if I need to use the mri_cvs_registrater to replace mri_register. 2 I check the result and find it produce the lh.sphere.reg.newtemplate1 and rh.sphere.reg.newtemplate1 in each subjects's surf folder. I want to know how to check the result by using the new file. 3 Should I need to re-run recon-all after the mri_register for every subjects? Thanks very much for your help!