Hi, you would threshold mean_FA - however, that won't give you a full
mask probably because of reduced FA in regions of crossing fibres. You
would probably get a more accurate and correct WM segmentation from
segmenting structurals.
Cheers.
On 12 Mar 2009, at 20:38, Naama Barnea-Goraly wrote:
> Dear FSL experts,
>
> What would be the best way to generate a full white matter mask from
> the FA image? Not the skeleton, an inclusive white matter mask of
> all white matter (or all white voxels).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Naama
>
>
>
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