Hi Doug,
 
Sorry, missed your reply. I assumed the --identity argument was used for looking up the surface-to-volume mapping somewhere in the predefined folder structure of this subject. Anyhow, my last command was
 
mri_surf2vol --surfval sig_2subj01.mgh --hemi rh --fillribbon --identity sub01 --template subj01/mri/orig.mgz --o sig_2subj01_volumetric.nii
 
so I guess no transformation is needed since the surface is already in the proper space (that of subj01).
 
About my tkmedit command: I'm not using that. I usually visualize my results in Matlab, for the pics I send I used Freeview and tksurfer (so commands such as "mrview T1.mgz" and "tksurfer fsaverage lh inflated")
 
Best regards,
 
René


 
2012/4/5 Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
The template specifies the output geometry. When you specify --identity, you specify a particular transformation between the volume and the surface, so you can't change the target volume without specifying a different transform. I'm at a bit of a loss as to why this is not working. What is your tkmedit command?
doug


On 04/05/2012 06:04 AM, René Besseling wrote:
Hi Doug,

I'm using tksurfer to visualize the surface maps; this looks OK for both the original map overlaid on fsaverage and the mapped surface (generated using mri_surf2surf) overlaid on subj01. The mapping from surface to cortical ribbon also works well for fsaverage but goes haywire for subj01, see pics in attachment.

I noticed that mri_surf2vol gives different results when using different --template volumes. Why is that? I assumed that the --template image essentially provides the range of voxel coordinates to which the surface values can be mapped. In other words: when providing a template with a bigger field of view, I'd expect the center of the resulting output to look the same as the output generating when using a small FOV template. Does it matter whether you write your output as .mgz or .nii?

Best regards,

Rene

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> wrote:

   How are you visualizing the results? Can you send a pic? You should be
   using tkmedit.
   doug

   On 04/04/2012 09:59 AM, René Besseling wrote:
   > Dear Freesurfer users,
   >
   > I've been trying to map a Qdec contrast sig.mgh to the native volume
   > of a subject using mri_surf2surf (to get from Qdec fsaverage surface
   > to native surface) and mri_surf2vol (to map from native surface to
   > native volume cortical ribbon). However, the last step goes wrong: I
   > get a nii with the same range of values as were in the surface, but
   > the nonzero voxels are scattered all over, so I guess there is
   > something wrong with the surface-to-voxel coordinate mapping.
   Below is
   > my code, any ideas on what goes wrong?
   >
   > Best regards,
   >
   > Rene
   >
   > mri_surf2surf --hemi rh --srcsubject fsaverage --noreshape --sval
   > sig.mgh --trgsubject subj01 --tval sig_2subj01.mgh
   >
   > mri_surf2vol --surfval sig_2subj01.mgh --hemi rh --fillribbon
   > --identity sub01 --template subj01/mri/orig.mgz --o
   > sig_2subj01_volumetric.nii
   >
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