Sure, glad it worked out
Bruce


On Aug 17, 2012, at 3:03 PM, Alex Kell <alexk...@mit.edu> wrote:

> ah, thanks -- i didn't realize the distinction.
> 
> also, i think i've figured out what was wrong.  i shouldn't sample to the 
> inflated surface -- i should sample to the white surface. 
> 
> the call that lead to misplacement: 
> mri_vol2surf --mov <volumetric_mask> --regheader <subj_id> --hemi rh 
> --inflated --o <inflated_surface_overlay>
> 
> the call that lead to correct placement: 
> mri_vol2surf --mov <volumetric_mask> --regheader <subj_id> --hemi rh --surf 
> white --o <white_surface_overlay>
>   
> thanks a bunch for your guys' help!
> 
> 
> alex
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Douglas N Greve <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> 
> wrote:
> Ah, I did not see that you had used inflated in your original vol2surf 
> command. That is definitely the source of the misplaced label. The 
> surf_name.mgz file is not a surface, it is an overlay. If you are trying to 
> load it as a surface in tksurfer (or getting info from mris_info), then it 
> will try to read it as a surface and fail. To look at it in tksurfer, load it 
> as an overlay, eg tksurfer subject lh inflated -overlay surf_name.mgz
> 
> doug
> 
> 
> On 08/17/2012 02:26 PM, Alex Kell wrote:
> hi doug,
> 
> i can't visualize it.  when i try to use tksurfer (or even mris_info) i get 
> the following error messages repeatedly (like >100 times and keeps going 
> until i interrupt the call).
> 
> freadFloat: fread failed
> No such file or directory
> 
> i tried mri_vol2surf using the white surface instead of the inflated and i 
> get the same fread errors.
> 
> the white call is: mri_vol2surf --mov <volumetric_mask> --regheader <subj_id> 
> --hemi rh --surf white --o <surf_name>.mgz
> 
> 
> alex
> 
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Douglas N Greve <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu 
> <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Alex, does the output of mri_vol2surf look ok on the surface? When
>     you run mri_cor2label, you should use the white or pial surface
>     instead
>     of inflated, but I don't think that is the problem here. Another thing
>     to look at is
>     tkregister2 --mov volumetric-mask --regheader --reg junk.dat --s
>     subjectname
>     and make sure that the label is in the right place (hit the compare
>     button to flip back and forth).
>     doug
> 
>     On 08/17/2012 11:02 AM, Alex Kell wrote:
>     > hi freesurfers,
>     >
>     > i'm trying to move a volume from a subject's native anatomical space
>     > to that subject's surface space, and i'm running into some
>     difficulty.
>     >
>     > we have binary masks in each subject's native anatomical space and
>     > we'd like to move these to be labels in that subject's surface
>     space.
>     > there we'd edit them (either manually or with dilation and erosion)
>     > and extract some simple anatomical measures (like thickness)
>     from that
>     > region in the surface space.  to do this, i am using mri_vol2surf to
>     > get the volume in the subject's surface space, and then using
>     > mri_cor2label to convert this surface file to a label.  the
>     problem is
>     > that when i look at the label in the surface space, it is in clearly
>     > the wrong position -- even though when i look at the volumetric mask
>     > as an overlay in tksurfer it looks like it's in the position
>     that it's
>     > supposed to be.  for instance, see the attached.  magenta is the
>     > volumetric mask overlay (in the correct position) and the blue-red
>     > circle is the label file (in the wrong position).
>     >
>     > my calls:
>     >
>     > mri_vol2surf --mov<volumetric_mask>  --reg identity.dat --hemi rh
>     > --inflated --o<output_surf_file>
>     > mri_cor2label --i<output_surf_file>  --id 1 --l ./<surf_label>
>      --surf
>     > <subj>  rh inflated
>     >
>     > "identity.dat" is a tkregister-style registration matrix where i
>     just
>     > put ones on the diagonal and zeros everywhere else.  i also tried
>     > mri_vol2surf where i used the --regheader flag.
>     >
>     > any thoughts?  what's going on here?
>     >
>     > thanks in advance.
>     >
>     >
>     > alex
>     >
>     >
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