If you want to do a surface-based analysis, then you don't need to have 
an accurate volume template. If you want to use a custom volume-based 
segmentation atlas, then you'll need to run gcatrain and gca-apply


On 04/19/2018 01:28 PM, Ting Li wrote:
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> Douglas,
>
> Sorry for bother you again. Our group want to study a cohort children’s brain 
> using Freesurfer. We prefer to register our subjects to a custom children 
> template. The template basically is an average of all the subjects we are 
> going to study. It is constructed by ANTs. The format is nii.gz. My questions 
> is where I should mention this registration template in the command 
> Recon-all?  or how to get the cortical thickness, surface area and volume for 
> various cortical regions for all subjects and perform the GLM analyses?
>
> In Freesurfer, there is a command of making own template for registration. If 
> I generate my template from there, how can I run recon-all for the next to 
> make sure my subjects all register to this template? and how to get the 
> cortical thickness, surface area and volume for various cortical regions for 
> all subjects and perform the GLM analyses?
>
> I really need your help for this. Thanks for your time.
>
> Best,
> Ting
>> On Apr 19, 2018, at 11:42 AM, Ting Li <tx...@ualr.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Douglas,
>>
>> Thank you so much for your response. My atlas is nii.gz format. What should 
>> I do to get the cortical thickness, surface area and volume for various 
>> cortical regions? Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Best,
>> Ting
>>
>>
>>> On Apr 19, 2018, at 11:28 AM, Douglas N. Greve <dgr...@mgh.harvard.edu> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is the atlas in GCA format? If so, then you can use gca-apply
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/19/2018 10:09 AM, Ting Li wrote:
>>>> Hi Freesurfer Experts,
>>>>
>>>> We want to run recon-all with a custom atlas which is generated from
>>>> ANTs multivariate template construction. What is the right procedure
>>>> to run recon-all? Run recon-all to my atlas itself first and them use
>>>> this output as a template or I use the custom template directly. I
>>>> looked up your email database to search related topic and got lost. I
>>>> have sent another email to your group and no response received. Please
>>>> help me.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for you time. I look forward to hearing from you.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Ting
>>>>
>>>>
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