I should have been more clear:  "I doubt it" was in response to this:

>  is it required that the contours be midthickness

I would think you could at least fool it into working. 


On May 7, 2013, at 1:28 PM, Colin Reveley <[email protected]> wrote:

> thanks
> 
> re: saggital and horizontal: forget that then. 
> 
> so
> 
> the question returns to: can I use contours as a mechanism to correct 
> artifact in the mri and make a wm segmentation that is helpful?
> 
> I RTFM (the caret tutorial dated about 2008) on contours and while the 
> examples are midthickness it mentions WM tracing as valid.  
> 
> So you say "I doubt it" but the docs suggest it can work
> 
> the idea is: trace the wm at 0.5mm intervals. make into a surface. fill with 
> voxels. if i like it, that's my wm seg. if not, adjust the contours till I do 
> like it.
> 
> we really need to make this segmenation. it's turning out out to be hard due 
> to the artifact. we've even pulled old (1999) scans of this brain from tapes 
> in germany but those were corrupted.
> 
> only part of the scan has artifact (ripple).
> 
> we are really working hard to solve this problem so if anyone knows for sure 
> if tracing the WM wouldn't make a WM surface I'd be grateful to know before I 
> plow into it head first.
> 
> Otherwise It's voxel by voxel correction of the segmentation volume in the 
> problem region for me. 
> 
> thanks
> 
> Colin
> 
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