One thing to consider is that the thickness.niml.dset files that @SUMA_Make_Spec_FS outputs are not smoothed. I believe you could use SurfSmooth to fix this. Alternatively, within the Freesurfer subject's surf directory there are files that are already smoothed and resampled to the fsaverage. To use these within the AFNI toolchain, you can use mris_convert:
mris_convert -c ./Subject01/surf/lh.thickness.fwhm10.fsaverage.mgh \
$SUBJECTS_DIR/fsaverage/surf/lh.white \
Subject01.lh.thickness.fsaverage.gii
And then use any of the AFNI tools (like 3dANOVA2/3) on the resulting GIFTI files and view the results on fsaverage:
suma -spec /usr/local/freesurfer/subjects/fsaverage/SUMA/fsaverage_lh.spec
In my tests, the statistics on these converted datasets give you identical results to those in Freesurfer's own tools.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/14/2014 11:57AM by Peter Molfese.