[Freesurfer] TRACULA - tract volume and length

2013-06-19 Thread Fred Sanders
Dear DTI experts, I am trying to understand how to interpret tract length & volume measurements that TRACULA provides. For example, let’s say a clinical population differs from a control group in mean FA of a particular tract, and tract length & volume are comparable across the 2 groups. I think

Re: [Freesurfer] TRACULA - tract volume and length

2013-06-22 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hi Fred - As with any probabilistic method, "volume" here is a measure of the spread of the probability distribution of the pathway (i.e. of path.pd.nii.gz), so it can be interpreted as the amount of uncertainty in the data. A more spread out distribution means more uncertainty, a tighter dis