I just don't think there is an easy way to do this in Caret right now, but I 
know that won't stop you. ;-)

You might try something like this:

map surf paint to vol using white, specifying outer thickness >0
map surf paint to vol using pial, specifying inner thickness >0
union these volumes and fill cavities
subtract the result from the Freesurfer ribbon volume
min the resulting difference at 0


On Dec 31, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Colin Reveley wrote:

> Hi - (happy new year)
> 
> Caret has a nice feature that lets you drop paints from a surface into a 
> volume.
> 
> but one thing is that all it really allows is for one to specifiy a distance 
> above and below the suface. So, it does not allow one to fill the gray matter 
> of a volume with paint accurately.
> 
> But, I can fill the gray or white matter accurately by having a pial or white 
> surface (from freesurfer), turning them into segmentations and subtracting 
> one from the other.
> 
> Or, wisely avoiding freesurfer, I could make a segmentation of the entire 
> volume (threshold to segmentation), shrink a midthickness surface made with 
> surefit so it pretty much fits the WM and subtract a segmentation of that 
> from the volume segmentation.
> 
> So, is there a way, could there be a way, might there one day be a way of 
> moving paint data from surface to volume using a segmentation (derived from 
> wherever) as a template, so that the entire cortical thickness is labelled by 
> the paint volume, and accounting for thickness variation?
> 
> this would be pretty handy. I could see it helping lots of things (for 
> example the scabalebrainatlas).
> 
> since I have a mask/segmentation of gray matter maybe there's a trick that I 
> could use to accomplish this right now?
> 
> All I can think of is to use the white, mid and pial surfaces I have (and 
> maybe 2 more surfaces, the average of white and mid and of pial and mid), 
> make paint volumes and OR them all togther. 
> 
> best for 2012. 
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