Hi Mike

you can convert the surfaces to ascii also, but I don't think we have a single format that is what you describe (since the thickness itself is not a property of any single surface). Easy enough to do in matlab though if you read in whatever surface and thickness file you want.

cheers Bruce On Fri, 14 Apr 2017, Michael Kranz wrote:

Hi, I was wondering how I would go about getting the vertex index and coordinates in one ascii file for a thickness overlay file.

With mri_convert using the --asci+crsf option it outputs the vertex index only. Now I want to get the coordinates of each index...Is this possible? I may be misunderstanding something....

Could this info be extracted with converting a surface (e.g., inflated) with  mris_convert? If so, where can I find info on how to read the ascii surface files.

In other words, what I'm trying to do is for each vertex:

<vertex index> <vertex coordinate x> <vert coord y> <vert coord z>

<thickness intensity>

Best, Mike

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