Yes, I agree. Going to the volume irreversibly reduces the resolution and would have to be very highres to have a hope of representing more than two compartments.

cheers
Bruce


On Tue, 20 Nov 2018, ts...@rcmd.org wrote:

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As you said, you can load FreeSurfer data (both the surface files and volume 
data) with the respective nibabel functions, i.e., read_geometry and 
read_morph_data. The ?h.pial and ?h.white files are surface meshes, so 
read_geometry would apply.

I'm not familiar with nighres, but from your description of what you want to 
do, it seems that you would need volume data for that. It seems impossible to 
do volumetric layering based on just a mesh.

Tim

On November 20, 2018 at 5:08 PM Borges Pereira  Ines Isabel 
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Dear FreeSurfer developers,

I am trying to segment the cortex of my subjects into multiple layers and am 
trying several approaches.
I have tried the command "mris_expand -thickness lh.white 0.5 lh.graymid" and 
it works perfectly.
I am also interested in trying other approaches from other software packages 
and have started to experiment with nighres.

Is it possible to convert the FreeSurfer surface files (pial and white) to a 
nibabel SpatialImage format or another format that can be read by the 
nibabel/nighres python library?
I have searched the FreeSurfer documentation but couldn’t find a direct answer. I 
also see that nibabel has a freesurfer module and hence I am able to load the images 
to a python script. However, when I attempt to use perform volumetric layering with 
nighres, it returns a value error, given that the “input volume must be either a 
path to a file that Nibabel can load or a nibabel SpatialImage."

I will also contact the nighres developers but was wondering if Freesurfer 
already takes into account the possible interaction between different software 
packages.

Many thanks!

Best regards,

Inês Pereira
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