David,

>
> If you have matlab, you can use the attached script.
>
> Use the attached file AND
> (1) download http://www.martinos.org/~mclaren/ftp/Utilities_DGM/PPPI
> (2) change the following 2 lines in the attached file:
>
> addpath(insertspmpath)
>
> addpath(insertpppipath)
>
> (3) create_sphere_image is the command you want to run. It takes several
> inputs, (a) template image, (b) VOI name, (c) VOI location, (d) sphere
> diameter in that order.
>
>
> For VOI location, you need a list of the x,y,z coordinates. Each coordinate
> gets its own row.
>
>
> Sorry there isn't more documentation.
>
> Best Regards, Donald McLaren
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> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Donna Dierker 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I'm going to assume you want a 3D label/ROI/paint volume, rather than
>> writing the node:scalar pairs to a node_numx1x1 nii volume (or as I
>> sometimes see it written as mgz).
>>
>> I used this dataset to do it:
>>
>> CARET_TUTORIAL_SEPT-06
>> http://sumsdb.wustl.edu/sums/directory.do?id=6585200
>>
>> Specifically the MACAQUE/Macaque.F99.RIGHT.DEMO.73730.spec spec file.
>>
>> Then I did:
>>
>> Load scenes
>> Select scene 8. Lewis-VE areas, borders on Flat, Fiducial, VeryInflated
>> (Macaque F99 RIGHT
>>
>> Attributes: Paint: Convert Paint Column  to Paint Volume
>> Volume Selection: Space: MACAQUE-F99
>> OK
>> D/C Overlay/Underlay Volume: Paint primary overlay
>> File: Save Data File: Volume Paint File:
>> Macaque.F99UA1.BOTH.LewisVE00.4dfp.ifh
>>
>> Normally, I'd choose NIFTI over 4dfp.ifh, because the latter is
>> generally only readable within wustl.edu, while the formerly is a
>> broadly recognized standard; however, to my knowledge, the NIFTI
>> standards body has not adopted a standard way to represent ROI index to
>> structure/meaning lookup, much less structure/meaning to color.  So
>> until that happens, we are stuck with the two work-arounds we know:
>>
>> * AFNI head into which Caret has inserted a LUT_NAMES tag (but other
>> software like AFNI won't recognize)
>> * ifh, which already had a mechanism for representing index to
>> structure/meaning lookup
>>
>> Since you said nifti or 4dfp.ifh, in this case I recommend ifh, because
>> it stores the lookup.  Note that the intensities are off by 2, e.g.
>> where the header says this:
>>
>> region names                       := 0 LVE00_VOT
>> region names                       := 1 LVE00_V4
>> region names                       := 2 LVE00_TEa_m
>> ...
>>
>> The actuall intensity of the voxels intersecting the LVE00_VOT nodes is
>> 2 -- not 0.  So add 2 to all the intensities in the header, and direct
>> all questions to Avi Snyder. ;-)
>>
>> Donna
>>
>> On 05/11/2011 08:58 PM, David Grayson wrote:
>> >
>> > Hey everybody,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I am working on a project generating macaque surface ROIs in caret. I
>> > was wondering if there is a way to generate ROIs in nifti format (or
>> > 4dfp.ifh format) for each node within a paint category. For instance,
>> > I have started generating individual ROIs corresponding to each node
>> > in the LVE00 surface category. However, since I have to do this one at
>> > a time, it really takes a while L. Ultimately we would like to make
>> > comparisons of all the ROIs of many different surface categories. So I
>> > am wondering, is there a way to produce all the ROIs of a paint
>> > category at once, instead of one by one?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > David
>> >
>>
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