Hi Donna! I am back and was finally able to check. The metric file, as you suspected, only contains the header. I have uploaded the metric file, the functional volume (.hdr and .img in Analyze format) and the fiducial surface. I am working on a Debian Linux platform. Thank you for your help, Marco
> Hi Marco, > > The Unknown spec file tag can be safely ignored. > > My hunch is that the metric file is empty (except perhaps for the > header). How big is the file? If >1K, then upload your metric, volume, > and fiducial surface here: > > http://pulvinar.wustl.edu/cgi-bin/upload.cgi > > You were running Debian Linux, right? > > Donna > > On 06/10/2005 12:16 PM, marco tettamanti wrote: > >Dear authors, > >I am having problems with the "Map Volumes to Surface" utility. I am > > following the very same procedure that used to work for me until release > > Caret5.2 (included). Now I have dowloaded the release 5.3 and this > > procedure no longer seems to work. > >I am trying to map a metric (functional) image to a Fiducial coord file. > > The algorithm doesn't report any errors and outputs: > > > >Map to Spec File: lvs7b.L.spec > >Metric File: map_data_0_10_Jun_2005_13_09_06.metric > >Algorithm: Average Voxel > > > >but in the bash shell I have got the followint report: > > > >Unknown Spec File tag moved to header: > > > >When I then try to open the .metric file that has been created, I receive > > an error message: > > > >Error while accessing X.metric: contains a different number of nodes than > >Y.coord > > > >This is strange, because the Y.coord file is exactly the same as the one > >entered in the mapping algorithm. > > > >Thank you for your advice! > >Marco -- Marco Tettamanti, Ph.D. Department of Neuroscience Scientific Institute San Raffaele c/o L.I.T.A. - room 25/5 Via Fratelli Cervi 93 I-20090 Segrate (MI) Italy Tel. +39-02-21717552 Fax +39-02-21717558 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]