Dear FreeSurfer colleagues,
We’re working with MS data and wanted your input on how we could best handle patients with extensive cortical pathology causing inaccurate reconstructions of the surfaces. In short the pial surfaces “dips” in too deep towards the WM surface due to the T1-hypointensity.
A lot of the problems can be mediated by doing wm.mgz edits and actually including the lesioned tissues, which pushes out both surfaces to an accurate position. Sometimes though, the cortical lesion affects the whole depth of the surface and this trick does not help.
Is there any way to directly push out or “anchor” the pial surface?
Thank you for the help!
Kind regards, Tobias
Post-doctoral research fellow Multiple Sclerosis Imaging Group MGH/HMS/MIT Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging 149 13th St Charlestown, MA 02129