Fantastic! Thanks again for all your help!

Best,

Elise

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 5:10 PM, John Harwell <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Elise,
>
> You can make the flat maps in Caret.  There is a tutorial for flattening
> available at http://brainvis.wustl.edu/wiki/index.php/Caret:Documentation.
>
> Typically in the Van Essen laboratory, it is our practice to average the
> pial and smooth white matter surfaces to create a surface that approximates
> layer 4.  This can be done from the command line (caret_command
> -surface-average) or though the Caret5 GUI using File Menu->Surface Create
> Average Coordinate File.
>
> Good luck,
>
> John
>
>
> On Dec 7, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Dickinson, Annelise (NIH/NIMH) [F] wrote:
>
> > Hi Dr. Harwell,
> >
> > Oh wow, that looks interesting! Hmmm I'll talk this all over with my
> post-doc as soon as I can-but thank you so so much for all your help and
> advice and please do let me know if you'd like any more information or data
> files from us at all.
> >
> > My post-doc's goal is to use Caret's atlases for a retinotopy
> experiment-do you suggest simply making the flat maps themselves in Caret?
> If so, would you happen to know the answer to the following question: Should
> the Fiducial surface for flattening in Caret be set as the FreeSurfer
> smoothwm (this is suggested in Beauchamp's Caret OpenWetWare flattening
> wiki) or another FreeSurfer dataset such as pial or orig? We just want to
> make sure we are catching all the appropriate brain tissue in the flat
> surface (since FreeSurfer's segmetation creates different types of files
> from Caret's).
> >
> > Please let me know if you have any insights on this issue, and thank you
> again!!
> >
> > -Elise
> >
> >
> > On 12/1/09 1:59 PM, "John Harwell" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Elise,
> >
> > I examined the FreeSurfer patch file and it appears to be in a different
> format than FreeSurfer patch files we have had in the past.  While I can
> change caret so that it does not crash, I am unable to determine the
> organization of the file so that it can be read.  You will need to run the
> command "mris_convert -p  lh.cort.patch.flat.try1
>  lh.cort.patch.flat.try1.asc" to convert the file to ascii format which
> caret is able to read.  While caret is then able to read the patch file, the
> surface from the patch file does not look correct.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
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