Hi Amanda

mris_convert -c lh.thickness.asc lh.white lh.thickness.mgz

should do the trick
cheers
Bruce
On Mon, 15 Oct
2018, Worker, Amanda wrote:

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> How would I do that? mris_convert doesn't seem to take .asc as an input?
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> Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Using a .asc file as overlay in freeview/tksurfer  
> Not sure. Can you use mris_convert to convert the asc back to a curv file?
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> On 10/15/2018 11:20 AM, Worker, Amanda wrote:
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> > Hello,
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> > I am trying to overlay a .asc file in either freeview or tksurfer, but
> > so far having no luck.
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> >
> > As practice and to determine the right format, I am simply using
> > lh.thickness, which I've converted to .asc using the following command:
> >
> >
> > % mris_convert -c lh.thickness lh.white lh.thickness.asc
> >
> >
> > I am trying to overlay this onto lh.pial for one subject, however I
> > cannot load the file and I get the following error message:
> >
> >
> > % mri_read(): couldn't determine type of file
> >/data/project/biobank/normative_modelling/DATA/03129b39-45a0-4491-9fdf-c7062a631d19/surf/lh.thickne
> ss.asc
> > surfer: couldn't load
> >/data/project/biobank/normative_modelling/DATA/03129b39-45a0-4491-9fdf-c7062a631d19/surf/lh.thickne
> ss.asc.
> >  If you were trying to load a functional volume, make sure
> > you selected the right registration method, and if necessary,
> > that the registration file exists.
> > If you were trying to load a volume-encoded value file,
> > make sure it has the same number of values as this surface
> > does vertices (128970).
> > sclv_read_from_volume: error in FunD_New
> >
> > Interestingly, I can load the file as a curvature file, but then can't
> > play around with the threshold.
> >
> >
> > Do you have any idea what I'm doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated!
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> >
> > Thanks,
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> > Amanda
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