I have not tried that yet - when would I enter this flag? During the initial recon-all coding or later? 
Thanks,
Brianna


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Bruce Fischl <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
Hi Brianna
if you upload a subject that is not doing well I'll take a look. Have you tried the -bigventricles flag?
cheers
Bruce
On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Brianna Damadian wrote:

Hi Bruce, I'm using v5.3.0. Does this version do well with patients with large ventricles? 
Two cases I ran seemed to do well with the ventricles, but some others seem to be running into some errors (which I
haven't had the time to work out yet). 
So in your opinion, to get our desired measures of total gray matter and ventricular volume, we would not need to
create our own atlas? 

Side question: Is there any literature on/do you happen to know what the margin of error for a measure like total
gray matter (taken from the aseg.stats header) is in Freesurfer?

Thanks, 
Brianna


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Bruce Fischl <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
      Hi Brianna

      yes, that would work (although you would use freeview or tkmedit).

      Why do you feel you need a new atlas? Our latest version does quite well, even on subjects with very
      very large ventricles. What version are you running?

      cheers
      Bruce

      On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Brianna Damadian wrote:

            Hi Bruce, Would be interested in an atlas for aseg that gives total gray matter and
            ventricle volume. 
            Would I be able to create an atlas based on these 30 patients with labeled volumes for just
            these measures? 
            Additionally, my understanding of creating an atlas is very rudimentary - would I begin the
            process by running
            recon-all on these 30 scans and then manually editing the segmentations using tksurfer? 

            Thanks again,
            Brianna


            On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Bruce Fischl <fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
                  Hi Brianna

                  what kind of atlas do you mean? If one for creating the aseg you will need
                  to have labeled volumes for creating a new atlas

                  cheers
                  Bruce


                  On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Brianna Damadian wrote:

                  > Hello,
                  >
                  > I am interested in creating my own atlas for elderly patients with enlarged
            ventricles. We have about
                  30 patients with axial MPR scans. Is this enough to build an atlas?
                  >
                  > Thanks,
                  > Brianna
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