Hi Mateus,

Your question throws me a little bit, but I'll try to provide a helpful answer.

When you register your surface to PALS_B12.LR, one of the resulting files in the atlas target directory is a file named like "def*Fiducial*coord" -- what David calls the "resampled" fiducial. (He doesn't like to use the word "deformed," because that implies that the surface is being distorted to match some target; in fact, the file named like "def*Fiducial*coord" is indistinguishable from the original surface by eye. It's actually slightly smoother than the original surface, resulting in a 7% surface area reduction.) If you click on a node in the individual surface, you'll get a node number and 3D coordinate in the Identify Window. If you click on roughly the same node in the resampled fiducial surface, you'll get a different node number -- even if you're extremely careful and pick the exact corresponding location, because your original surface has one mesh (e.g., say 54,040 nodes), while the PALS_B12.LR resampled surface has 73,730 nodes. But you should get virtually the same 3D coordinate.

Now, you can also open PALS_B12.LR average fiducial surfaces in the same session as your def*Fid*coord file -- any of these coords included in your Caret data_files/fmri_mapping_files:

Human.PALS_B12.LEFT_AVG_B1-12.FIDUCIAL_711-2C.clean.align.73730.coord
Human.PALS_B12.LEFT_AVG_B1-12.FIDUCIAL_AFNI.clean.73730.coord
Human.PALS_B12.LEFT_AVG_B1-12.FIDUCIAL_FLIRT.clean.73730.coord
Human.PALS_B12.LEFT_AVG_B1-12.FIDUCIAL_MRITOTAL.clean.73730.coord
Human.PALS_B12.LEFT_AVG_B1-12.FIDUCIAL_SPM2.clean.73730.coord
Human.PALS_B12.LEFT_AVG_B1-12.FIDUCIAL_SPM95.clean.73730.coord
Human.PALS_B12.LEFT_AVG_B1-12.FIDUCIAL_SPM96.clean.73730.coord
Human.PALS_B12.LEFT_AVG_B1-12.FIDUCIAL_SPM99.clean.73730.coord

If you open one or more of these surfaces in a Window 2 and click on nodes, then you'll get two different 3D coordinates for the same node. Which you use to report your findings is your call.

David also encourages authors to report Latitude and Longitude, when available. For PALS_B12.LR, make sure the latlon file is loaded when you run reports under Surface: ROI.

I hope this helps, but it probably won't.

On 12/07/2006 12:19 PM, Mateus Joffily wrote:
Hi,

I have registred one individual surface into PALS-B12 (using Human.PALS_B12.LR.REGISTER-with-INDIVIDUAL.73730.spec). I would like to know the talairach coordinate of a voxel in the registered surface. Is it possible?

Thanks for your help,
Mateus
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