Hi Jed, if too much of the brain is missing it will violate many of our basic assumptions. How big a resection do you mean? And exactly what goes wrong?
cheers, Bruce On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jed Singer wrote: > Hello! > > I've been using Freesurfer to build maps of the cortical surfaces of > surgical epilepsy patients who have volunteered to participate as > research subjects. It works great, except when these patients have had > previous resections. In these cases, recon-all fails; I know there are > ways that people get around this when working with brains that have > lesions (manually filling in white matter, e.g.) but is it possible to > get a reconstruction of the brain as it actually is? For example, in > the case of someone who has previously had an anterior temporal > lobectomy, I would love to end up with a model that does not have an > anterior temporal lobe. > > I'm sorry if this is an obvious question - I've been digging through > the archives of this list and furiously Googling and I've only found > descriptions of how to manually fill in holes (due to lesions or > caused by bad segmentations) in intact brains. > > Thanks in advance for any pointers, > Jed > _______________________________________________ > Freesurfer mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer > > > _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list [email protected] https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail.
