Hi Cherry, what I meant was that you cannot use the qcache with xhemi. 
You'll need to run the mris_preproc command as listed on the web page.
doug

On 03/28/2013 01:00 PM, Ejoe Yizhou Ma wrote:
> Thanks, Doug.
>
> I'm not planning to use qdec. It's just that I used to generate the 
> ?h.thickness_max10.fwhm10.fsaverage_510.mgh files (which are what we 
> name the files after running the two commands) before I use 
> mris_preproc and mri_glmfit. I also generally skip the "smooth" step 
> in freesurfer tutorial since the files are smoothed in the first place.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Cherry
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Douglas N Greve 
> <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     Actually, #2 will not work. I don't think you can use qdec with the
>     xhemi stuff anyway. You should use the mris_preproc command
>     followed by
>     mri_glmfit.
>     doug
>
>
>     On 03/28/2013 12:51 PM, Douglas N Greve wrote:
>     > On 03/28/2013 12:16 PM, Ejoe Yizhou Ma wrote:
>     >> Dear Freesurfer experts,
>     >>
>     >> I'm trying to investigate lh-to-rh asymmetry, so I register my
>     >> subjects to the subject of fsaverage_sym following the
>     instructions on
>     >> this page: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Xhemi.
>     After all
>     >> the surfreg commands I've got ?h.thickness files in
>     subjid/xhemi/surf.
>     >>
>     >> In my lab we generally process ?h.thickness files with the next two
>     >> commands before statistically analysis:
>     >>
>     >> "mris_thickness -max 10 subjid ?h thickness_max10"
>     >> "recon-all -qcache -measure thickness_max10 -target fsaverage_510
>     >> -fwhm 10 -no-isrunning -s subjid -hemi ?h"
>     >>
>     >> To keep with this protocol, my questions are
>     >> 1) how do I use "mris_thickness" properly so that I don't overwrite
>     >> the files registered to fsaverage_510?
>     > I think it will recreate the basic ?h.thickness file and will
>     not touch
>     > registrations.
>     >> 2) in "recon-all -qcache", will it do the trick by substituting
>     >> "fsaverage_sym" for "fsaverage_510"?
>     >>
>     > Yes, that should work.
>     >> Thank you in advance,
>     >> Cherry
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
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