Maybe I'm missing something, but would mapping to volume from the
midthickness surface, with a thickness value greater than the maximum
cortical thickness value, and then masking with the ribbon volume give you
what you want?

Tim

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Donna Dierker <[email protected]>wrote:

> I think it's Volume: Segmentation: Fill Cavities.
>
> You can't just leave it at fill cavities, because projecting from surface
> to each of the pial and white surfaces will result in voxels outside the
> ribbon, even if you do optimize thickness for each.  You need to mask the
> result using the ribbon.  (David sent you an alternate way of computing the
> ribbon, but Matt said that route's ribbon was not more accurate than
> Freesurfer's, which presumably you already have, if you have white and pial
> surfaces.)
>
> Mask is a better verb than subtract.
>
> You still have a problem with how you combine the white and pial
> projections; you can use the "Max" function using Caret's volume math ops
> or fslmaths.  But you consider working with one paint/label at a time, in
> case one region projects to the white, but an adjacent region projects to
> the pial.  The higher paint index wins, and this is probably not what you
> want.  If you can script this in such a way that processing one region at a
> time is not onerous, then you will have yourself a not-easy way of doing
> this.
>
>
> On Jan 3, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Colin Reveley wrote:
>
> > the freesurfer ribbon volume is just a GM segmentation right?
> >
> > why not leave at just "fill cavaties" (I didn't know that existed, that
> seems the key thing)?
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> >   1. Re: painting the entire GM thickness accurately from      surface
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> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Donna Dierker <[email protected]>
> > To: "Caret, SureFit, and SuMS software users" <
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> > Cc:
> > Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 09:43:46 -0600
> > Subject: Re: [caret-users] painting the entire GM thickness accurately
> from surface data
> > 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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> > From: Donna Dierker <[email protected]>
> > To: and SuMS software users Caret SureFit <
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> > Cc:
> > Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 09:55:35 -0600
> > Subject: [caret-users] Fwd: error in overlay
> > This ended up off-line, but was resolved by switching to an English
> character set.
> >
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > From: Donna Dierker <[email protected]>
> > > Date: December 30, 2011 1:58:51 PM CST
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: Re: [caret-users] error in overlay
> > >
> > > You can map cubic 2mm functional volumes.  It should be no problem,
> provided the orientation and origin are accurately specified in the NIFTI
> header.  If the volume is not NIFTI format, there can be issues.
> > >
> > > However, neither of these explains the specific error you are getting,
> which concerns the metric output file.  By any chance are you using a
> non-English character set on your computer?  I've never come across this
> particular error before, but it has been a problem in other I/O contexts.
>  If this is a potential issue, then how much of a hassle would it be to try
> Caret on another computer with an English character set?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Dec 30, 2011, at 1:33 PM, vin . wrote:
> > >
> > >> thanx Donna,
> > >>
> > >> just checked, have write permission
> > >> Just, I tried again with metric name
> ''map_data_0_30_Dec_2011_20_29_06.metric''
> > >>
> > >> still same message.
> > >>
> > >>
> http://prefrontal.org/blog/2009/04/using-caret-for-fmri-visualization/
> > >> do u think, the above mentioned procedure is fine, if I use MNI space
> 2mm group results for overlaying ? or I need to transform them, before
> overlapping them in to PALS_fmri_mapping_atlasfile (as described in the
> above link )
> > >>
> > >> Thank you
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Donna Dierker <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > >> Hmmm.  That's odd.  What filename did you use?  Any spaces or
> characters other than alphanumeric?  Did it perhaps include a path that
> doesn't exist?  Finally, do you have write permission to the current
> directory, or valid specified path?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Dec 30, 2011, at 10:50 AM, vin . wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Thank you Donna,
> > >>>
> > >>> It was specified. even I tried changing name of it. still same error.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Donna Dierker <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > >>> Make sure your metric filename is not empty; see attached capture
> for where it is specified.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On Dec 29, 2011, at 10:22 AM, vin . wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Dear Caret Experts,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> A newbie to Caret, having problem to overlay .. getting error ''
> > >>>> A metric file must be provided for metric mapping ''
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I followed this tutorial. Would like to overlay, few surface
> tracking results in Caret surface (Atlas)
> > >>>>
> http://prefrontal.org/blog/2009/04/using-caret-for-fmri-visualization/
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Thank you :)
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