No, not in the current framework. Even if there were, fwhm=.66 would not 
give you much smoothing. The intervertex distance is about 1mm, at 
fwhm=.66mm, the nearest vertex would be about 3 standard deviations 
away, meaning that the smoothing would be minimal.

On 12/21/18 12:12 PM, sha...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:
> So, is there anyway around this issue?
>
>
>> The smoothing works through iterative nearest neighbor smoothing, so the
>> fwhm is essentially discretized because you can't have fractions of an
>> iteration. It looks like fwhm=0.66 is closer to 0 iterations than 1
>> iteration, so it chooses 0.
>>
>> On 12/21/18 11:23 AM, sha...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:
>>> Dear Surfers,
>>>      I am trying to use mris_fwhm to apply fwhm=0.66 to my fmri data
>>> (voxel
>>> size 1 mm iso)using the below command:
>>>
>>> mris_fwhm --s <SBJ_NAME>--hemi rh --smooth-only --i
>>> fmcpr.sm0.self.projfrac_0.rh.nii.gz --fwhm 0.66 --o
>>> fmcpr.sm0p66_surf.self.projfrac_0.rh.nii.gz --mask
>>> /masks/brain.self.rh.nii.gz
>>>
>>> When I apply this command, it works without any error. The message on
>>> screen is as below:
>>>
>>> <SBJ_NAME> rh white
>>> Number of vertices 160391
>>> Number of faces    320778
>>> Total area         102725.085938
>>> GroupSurface 0
>>> AvgVtxArea       0.640467
>>> AvgVtxDist       0.875515
>>> StdVtxDist       0.253406
>>> Loading mask masks/brain.self.rh.nii.gz
>>> Found 36045 voxels in mask
>>> Not Polynomial detrending
>>> Smoothing input by fwhm=0.660000, gstd=0.280276, niters=0
>>> Only smoothing, so saving and exiting now
>>>
>>>      But the outcome is the same as input. I think it is expected based
>>> on
>>> (niters=0).  When I use the same command with fwhm =1, then i see the
>>> difference and niters=1.
>>>
>>> My question is, why is fwhm = 0.66 not acceptable? How can i solve this
>>> issue.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> _____________________________________
>>>
>>> Shahin Nasr
>>>
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>>> Harvard Medical School
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