I would like more information about how exactly the time series values of voxels are mapped onto the nodes in SUMA. Since there are ~30,000 voxels and the functional data are not interpolated, does this mean that each voxel's time series gets mapped 6x onto the nodes that correspond to the XYZ coordinates? Does this mean that some time series values are redundant in the niml.dset files? If you could explain in more detail how the values contained in the niml.dset files are obtained, I would appreciate it.
Also, I am not sure what is meant by the fact that the surface dataset is "sparse" by default. When I use ConvertDset, the output contains 196,002 rows all with intensity values in them. If I were to use the pad_to_node max_index, what values would be substituted with 0 since all rows seem to have values in niml.dset file.
Thanks,
Anjali