Hi Jennine,
Do you mean that a large surface ROI turns out to be just ONE spec in the volume ? If that is the case then there is a problem.
I suspect that you have a large number of small specs (one voxel) that together form the surface ROI, but these specs may not be adjacent because of the inter-node spacing of the surface's mesh. Recall that mapping is node based. Check out the section "Mapping from volume to surface domains" on SUMA's manual page:
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If you want your volume ROIs to appear more clustered, consider using 3dfractionize while reducing the high resolution ROI to a lower resolution one.
cheers,
-ziad