Thank you kindly Martin, saved me a lot of trouble and time starting from
scratch!

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Martin Reuter <mreu...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Garret,
>
> sure, there is no need to run qcache at all. Assuming you do a thickness
> analysis, you can directly use mris_preproc to register all thickness maps
> from only the first time point to fsaverage and smooth them (there you need
> to pass a list of only the first longidutinal time points: sidtp1.long.base
> ) . Then you can run mri_glmfit the same way as in any other cross
> sectional analysis.
>
> Take a look at this page (Uncached Data):
>
> https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/GroupAnalysis
>
> Usually it is a good idea to separate the mapping and smoothing steps (as
> described in the tutorial) by splitting into mris_preproc and
> mris_surf2surf (for smoothing). The reason is that you can later easily
> smooth at a different smoothing level and avoid a second time-consuming
> mapping of all the thickness files.
>
> Best, Martin
>
> Am 17.10.2017 um 16:59 schrieb Garret O'Connell:
>
>
>
> Hello FreeSurfer experts,
>
> I am trying to do a cross-sectional baseline analysis from the outputs of
> the longitudinal processing stream, following the advice on a previous
> question's thread:
>
> https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pipermail//freesurfer/2016-
> March/044681.html
>
> From my reading of the issue, I need to run the following command,
> entering the cross-sectional title folder as the first input.
>
> recon-all -long "subj_crossfolder" "subj_base" -qcache
>
> For this step, i know it is necessary that recon-all knows where the cross
> folders are located, although from my understanding, it does not actually
> use data from these folders., instead using the data in the .long folders.
>
> My issue is that I do not have access to the cross folders anymore, and
> was wondering if there was a work around to do the cross sectional analysis
> without them?
>
> Thanks for any help!
> Garret
>
>
>
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