Dear Andrea,<div><br></div><div>I would like to further clarify the options for this question. Perhaps could you suggest which inverse algorithm you had in mind? </div><div><br></div><div>For example, it is possible to use beamforming limited only to voxels defined as lying on the cortical sheet (i.e. restrict .inside to be only the gray matter). This is possible, but you might miss out on the spatial peak of the source lying just 5mm away to the inside a bit. Thus, it would be better to do as Eelke suggested and apply beamforming to the whole inside of the brain, and then project those values to the surface for visualisation (which is easily done with the cfg.method='surface' option in ft_sourceplot).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Alternatively, you can use a min-norm type of inverse method (e.g. sLORETA or MNE) which are commonly used to reconstruct onto cortical surface voxels only. This works because the min-norm algorithms force all activity to lie in the region over which you select to reconstruct. Thus, a source 5mm inside of the surface will automatically get projected to the surface.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I also agree with Eelke you should not just project sensors to surface without doing a specific type of inverse method.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Johanna<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2012/6/20 Eelke Spaak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eelke.spaak@donders.ru.nl" target="_blank">eelke.spaak@donders.ru.nl</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear Andrea,<br>
<br>
If I understand your question correctly, you just want to *visualise*<br>
sensor space activity on a brain surface, without doing source<br>
reconstruction first? I would advise against this. Time-frequency<br>
power values of your planar gradient data reflect the spectral<br>
characteristics of the magnetic gradient at the location of your<br>
sensors. These sensors are not located at the surface of the brain,<br>
but quite some centimeters away from it. Therefore, visualising the<br>
data as if it were actually recorded on the brain surface, without<br>
doing a proper transformation, is potentially misleading. It is true<br>
that people tend to display all sorts of data in a 'topoplot' fashion,<br>
but in that case it is clear to the audience that you are looking at a<br>
representation in sensor-space. Have a look at ft_topoplotTFR for this<br>
approach, if you're not already familiar with it.<br>
<br>
If you want to display your time-frequency activity on a cortical<br>
surface (which is of course a perfectly valid thing to want to do),<br>
you first should map the sensor activity to source space. This mapping<br>
is non-trivial and can be done by e.g. beamforming. See<br>
<a href="http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/tutorial/beamformer" target="_blank">http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/tutorial/beamformer</a> for a tutorial on<br>
this. That tutorial ends with a surface plot.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps!<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Eelke<br>
<br>
On 20 June 2012 17:26, andrea brovelli <<a href="mailto:andrea.brovelli@univ-amu.fr" target="_blank">andrea.brovelli@univ-amu.fr</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Dear Fieldtrip users and developpers,<br>
><br>
> I would like to project and visualise time-frequency power values computed<br>
> on planar gradient data at the sensors level onto the brain surface<br>
> segmentated from the anatomial MRI of the subject.<br>
><br>
> Can anyone suggest me how to do it in Fieldtrip ? Can anyone share the<br>
> scripts ?<br>
><br>
> Does anyone see any inconvenient to this visualisation ?<br>
><br>
> Thanks a lot for you help.<br>
><br>
> Andrea<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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