This process uses the command mri_fill to create a binarized volume. The input is the mri/wm volume and the output is the mri/filled volume. First, the cutting planes are determined to seperate the hemispheres from each other and the pons. Then a seed point located and used to fill each hemisphere. The rh will be filled with a value of 255, and the lh with a value of 127.

Occasionnally, manual intervention is required to define the cutting planes and seed points. To do so, follow these steps:

1.Open the subject's wm volume up in tkmedit. tkmedit subject_name wm

2.View the MNI talairach coordinates. View->Information->MNI Coordinates

3.Select the Corpus Callosum point, on the mid-posterior portion of it. Example:

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4.Copy the MNI coordinates to the command line for either recon-all -cc-xyz .... or in mri_fill -C ....

5.Do this for all of the other cutting plane points and seed points. Examples follow: