Thanks, Jennifer and Michael.

Best,
Chao

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Harms, Michael <mha...@wustl.edu> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> In FS, “Intracranial volume”, renamed to “EstimatedTotalIntraCranialVol”
> (aka “eTIV”) in more recent FS versions, is solely based on the determinant
> of a talairach transform that is internal to FS.  That particular transform
> does not necessarily need to be accurate for FS to generate accurate
> surfaces/segmentations, so we did not QC it.  For that reason, I do not
> recommend using it.
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> Cheers,
>
> -MH
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> *From: *<hcp-users-boun...@humanconnectome.org> on behalf of Chao Zhang <
> cha...@gmail.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, November 22, 2017 at 2:25 PM
> *To: *"hcp-users@humanconnectome.org" <hcp-users@humanconnectome.org>
> *Subject: *[HCP-Users] FreeSurfer brain volume question
>
>
>
> Hi
>
>
>
> We were checking the FS brain volumes and found that out of the 1113
> subjects for 14 subjects the FS_BrainSeg_Vol is larger than the
> FS_IntraCranial_Vol (so that the column FS_BrainSegVol_eTIV_Ratio is larger
> than 1). We wonder if this is due to some error in calculating either of
> the two columns (FS_BrainSeg_Vol, FS_IntraCranial_Vol)? Thanks!
>
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> Best,
>
> Chao
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