Hi - the distance threshold works on each half of the streamline separately.
Cheers,
Saad
On 5 Jun 2012, at 07:09, Colin Reveley wrote:
> If a single track is seeded from a single voxel, in fact two tracks are seeded that proceed in exactly opposite directions from the seedpoint.
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> If I specify that tracks whose length is less than 5mm are to be discarded does this refer to the combined length? how does this interact with mask intersections?
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> If one segment of the sample proceeds towards a rostral mask, and the other to a caudal mask, will the entire sample be discarded if it hits the caudal mask when the combined sample length is <5mm? Or will the other segment be allowed to proceed towards the rostral mask?
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> if the other segment is allowed to proceed, then the total sample length may then exceed 5mm. And so, does the intersection of the sample with the caudal (<5mm from seed) mask count, by virtue of the total sample length being greater than 5mm including the rostral extent?
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> How exactly does this work, in terms of specifying a seed to classification mask set, when one wants the distance travelled from seed to mask to be at least 5mm, for the seed to get a point for hitting the mask?
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> I would say in principle the two segments are the same sample. Yet this seems to pose problems if you want to specify that a track from a seed point to a mask must have a certain length. It would be good at least to know what the parameter specifies precisely, in seed to target terms rather than just sample length terms.
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> best,
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> Colin
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