Thanks a lot, Bruce

If I want to compare the surface area between the patients and healthy control 
groups, which area file should I use? The area or the area.pial? Or I should 
compare both of them? If I should use both, is there any possibility that I 
would obtain different results from area and area.pial? I mean, in this case, a 
brain region has significantly different area but same (not significant) 
area.pial. How can I explain them in my research paper?

BTW, just out of curiosity, in the stats file such as lh.aparc.stats, why just 
thickness has the mean and std value, but other measures do not have the std 
value? 
SurfArea GrayVol ThickAvg ThickStd MeanCurv GausCurv FoldInd CurvInd

Best,
Feng



发件人:Bruce Fischl <fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
发送时间:2015-10-06 20:45
主题:Re: [Freesurfer] Query about the calculation of surface area
收件人:"Freesurfer support list"<freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
抄送:

yes, that is correct 
Bruce 


On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, chenhf_uestc wrote: 

> Thanks, Bruce   So, in the stats folder of each subject, the  
> lh.aparc.a2009s.stats file provides surfarea of each region. This value  
> is the area for the white surface, right?    
> Is the area of each vertex obtained by the average the area of triangles su  
> rrounding the vertex?    Best, Feng 
>  
> ____________________________________________________________________________ 
>       发件人:Bruce Fischl <fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> 
> 发送时间:2015-10-06 20:25 
> 主题:Re: [Freesurfer] Query about the calculation of surface area 
> 收件人:"Freesurfer support list"<freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> 
> 抄送: 
>   
> Hi Feng  
>   
> we compute the surface area of each surface and store it separately. The   
> ?h.area files are for the white surface and the ?h.area.pial for the pial  
>   
> cheers  
> Bruce  
> On   
> Tue, 6 Oct 2015, chenhf_uestc wrote:  
>   
> > Dear Freesurfer experts,  
> >    
> > I have a question about the calculation of surface area. The cortical  
> > thickness is the distance between the pial and white matter. But, what ab 
> out  
> > the surface area? Calculation based on pial or white matter? Or average t 
> he  
> > area of both of them.  
> >    
> > Is the area of each vertex obtained by the average the area of triangles 
?? ?> surrounding the vertex?  
> > In addition, where can I find the definition of meancurv, gauscurv, foldi 
> nd,  
> > curvind? I do not find it in the fswiki.  
> >    
> > Best,  
> > Feng  
> >    
> >   
> >  
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