Dear All:
Just to follow up with my previous enquiry, is there any suggestion/advice over this pial edit issue?
In addition, I would like to ask one more question if possible: I understand that the pial surface is created by expanding the WM surface. Hence, is there any parameter (maybe to mris_make_surfaces command) that I can adjust to allow for more expansion? Meaning the pial boundary will be "pushed" further from WM surface? I know the end-result maybe be worse but just for the sake of curiosity.
Thanks!
Regards, Hock Wei SOON
-----Original Message----- From: Soon Hock Wei Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 8:49 AM To: 'freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu' Subject: RE: [Freesurfer] Pial Edit on Atrophied Brain
Hi:
Thanks for the reply! Attached is the image.
Regards, Hock Wei SOON
-----Original Message----- From: Bruce Fischl [mailto:fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 11:49 PM To: Soon Hock Wei Cc: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Pial Edit on Atrophied Brain
could you send us an image to illustrate what you mean? On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Soon Hock Wei wrote:
Dear All: I am working on MRI images of subjects suffered from dementia. In severe cases, atrophy is observed where the white matter loss causes reduced white/gray differentiation. Hence, the pial surface generated from the autorecon2 does not include what is clearly atrophied cortical tissue without the underlying white matter. I could not find any way to manually correct for this pial surface (i.e. to expand the surface outward to include the atrophied cortical tissue). The nearest wm surface is far away due to white matter loss. Can anyone please give me some advices? Any suggestion is appreciated. Regards, Hock Wei SOON
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You can try to add voxels to the wm.mgz in the area that you know is wm. If that's already there or you tried that already, let us know. Allison
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