Hello.

I'm a new Freesurfer question, and I was wondering if you could answer a couple of questions for me.  

First some background:  After having done the autorecon1 and autorecon2 steps successfully, and after also checking and making sure that the original white matter surface registered well to Talairach space, I am now at the point of checking the white matter surface.  There are definitely places that should be included as white matter that were left out.  In those spots, I have added control points and have had no trouble.  

My questions though are about spots in the cortex where the white matter surface has included gray matter.  I believe I should use the Edit Voxels Tool to fix this, but I am not entirely sure how I should "Configure the Brush Info" or "Configure the Volume Brush".  For the Brush Info, should I set the Target as the Main Volume, the Aux Volume or the Main and Aux Volume?  I am not sure which I should select.  From the tutorial (http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/WhiteMatterEdits), it looks like I should select the Aux Volume and then save that in order to run: 
recon-all -autorecon2-wm -autorecon3 -subjid wm2_edits_before.

But, I'm concerned about what the tutorial means as the deletion of voxels by this editing tool.  Would reclassifying these voxels as non-white matter automatically render them as part of the pial surface when the above script is run?  Or, would they be reclassified as non-brain tissue?

Also, I would appreciate it if you could direct me on how to set the Volume Brush Info appropriately.

Thank you in advance for your help,
Meghana




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Meghana Karnik-Henry, Ph.D.
Research Associate
University of Texas at Dallas
Center for Brain Health
Department of Behavioral and Brain Sciences