Thank you Donna.

I also have another question:

Is there any way to highlight the path of smaller distance, so as to 
observe it in the brain surface?

Ana

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> Dear all,
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> My question is about how caret calculates the surface distance between
> two centers of gravity. Does it calculate the minimum distance between
> the centers (passing through the minimum #nodes) or are there some
> default constraints?
>
> How can I produce I file that constraints the way we calculate the
> distances, for example calculate the distances avoiding the corpus callosum?
>
> Thank you,
>
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> Ana
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> From: Donna Dierker <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [caret-users] Surface distances
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> Hi Ana,
>
> I'm not sure Caret (caret5, at least) does what you want.  There is this:
>
>        caret_command -surface-geodesic
>           <surface-coord>
>           <surface-topo>
>           <output-metric>
>           <smoothed>
>           [-node  node-number]
>           
>           Generate the geodesic distance from all nodes to all other nodes
>           unless a node number is specified in which case the distances are
>           output for the specified node to all nodes.
>           Uses dijkstra's algorithm with reuse of information from previous
>           root nodes.  If smoothed is 'true', it traces paths over adjacent
>           triangles in order to generate distances for some 2hop neighbors.
>           This causes the contours of equal distance to be closer to circular,
>           and also makes the distances more consistent for a mesh which has
>           been streched nonuniformly.  It is almost as fast as unsmoothed.
>           
>                 surface-coord      the surface coord file
>           
>                 surface-topo       the surface topo file
>           
>                 output-metric      output metric file for geodesic distance
>
> You could generate a topology file that excluded the corpus callosum, if you 
> have a label/parcellation/paint file that identifies the CC.  You could use 
> the Surface: ROI menu or caret_command to successively exclude any vertices 
> to be avoided from your topo file.
>
> But when you click on the surface in the GUI ("ID nodes"), you get the 
> Euclidean distance between the points -- not the geodesic distance.
>
> Donna
>
>
> On Jan 29, 2013, at 4:23 AM, Ana Gomes <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>> My question is about how caret calculates the surface distance between two 
>> centers of gravity. Does it calculate the minimum distance between the 
>> centers (passing through the minimum #nodes) or are there some default 
>> constraints?
>>
>> How can I produce I file that constraints the way we calculate the 
>> distances, for example calculate the distances avoiding the corpus callosum?
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>>
>> Ana
>>
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