This is a really good question (which I don't know the answer to).
It has always seemed to me to be an important potential compound for people
doing template-based VBM, but then I have never done this so I may be
showing my ignorance!
Krish
On 22/7/04 3:20 pm, "Jason Craggs" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On a related note to Krish:
>
> Does anyone know whether intra-individual structural asymmetries disappear
> when registering raw image data to a template? For a gross example, imagine
> that in the raw image data the left temporal lobe is 2/3rds longer than the
> right. Now if the template image is symetrical, will my final image have
> symmetrical temporal lobes or will the natural asymmetry be present?
>
> Jason
>
>
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