Dear AFNI experts:

I am interested in using SUMA to do a group analysis, but I want to warp to a different template (rather than Talaraich or the MNI Collins N27 template). If I am using another template, would I need to process it through FreeSurfer in order to generate the surface mesh or is there a tool within SUMA which performs this?

In looking at the SUMA documentation, there is a step where the subject brain is inflated to a sphere. The sphere is then matched to a template sphere (see attached image). I wanted to find out if the template sphere is independent of the space you want to warp to (i.e. warp subject sphere to the template sphere- THEN transformed to MNI or Talairaich space?), or if the template sphere is generated directly from the MNI template (through FreeSurfer autorecon processing)?

KB