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Hi - I suggest you look at the images output to answer that!    You might also see if you can output the VTK format outputs from bet and betsurf, as that might be a more accurate way of getting the surfaces into FreeSurfer, if they can handle that?

Cheers.


On 26 Oct 2010, at 00:21, Alexander Hunold wrote:

> Dear experts,
>  
> I build up the three additional surfaces with betsurf in the bet command like:
> 
> <bet T1_input_file Output –A2 T2_input_file>
> 
> I got the surfaces as nifti-files. In the documentation it is said, that it are binary masks.
> To convert the nifti-files to FreeSurfer surface-files I got following hint from Nick Schmansky:
>  
> > use mri_binarize to set each brain voxel value to the same value (maybe bet does this), then use something >like:
>  
> >mri_tesselate mybrainmask.nii.gz 127 mybrainmask.surf
>  
> >where '127' happens to be voxel value used in the binarization.
>  
> I assume the bet algorithm does binarization. Is that right? When yes, my question now is what or which value “happens” to the voxels in the bet algorithm?
> 
> I appreciate any hint.
> Thank you so much in advance.
> 
> Best regards,
> Alexander
>  


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