Hi Sanket,

As Darrell suggested, this is possible -- but it's also somewhat computationally challenging.  In fact, I've run into the same exact problems as you have when I recently tried this.  Any chance that the brain trisurf was generated by extracting the boundary of a label map (e.g. something from Seg3D or Slicer)?  If so, it's *much* easier to clip the fibers to the label map volume -- if that's the case, I'd be happy to walk you through how to do it.

Cheers,

Dave

On Feb 24, 2011, at 4:33 PM, Sanket Jain wrote:

Thanks for your reply Darrell. I have tried your suggestions but no luck as of now.

1) I am not sure how would I verify if the brain surface is completely closed. I assumed it is closed and went ahead with meshing the surface. When I used the default parameters in interfacewithtetgen, I encountered the following error:

Error:  Invalid PLC.
Two subfaces (143073, 84920, 141454) and (85834, 84920, 84930) are found intersecting each other.
Hint:  Use -d switch to find all intersecting facets

Based on the hint, I activated -d switch. For this I had to turn off -q switch because -q and -d cannot be used together according to another error. On doing so, I got the surface meshed. I verified the output of InterfaceWithTetGen as 'TetVolMesh' Type.

2) I connected the mesh to 2nd input of ClipFieldtoFieldOrWidget (ClipField) while the fibers (curvefield) were connected to 1st input (Input Field). The output was always an empty field. I played around with all 3 "locations to test". The output was empty in all the cases.

Field Data basis for both mesh and fibers was Linear before passing to ClipFieldtoFieldorWidget. In theory, this approach looks correct to me. Do you have any idea why this wont be working?

Sanket

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Darrell Swenson <darrell.swenson@gmail.com> wrote:

If your brain surface is completely closed or "water tight" then it is not too hard.  There are several ways, but the easiest is to simply create a volumetric mesh and then clip you fiber field to your brain mesh.  So this would look like:

Brain field goes to

interfacewithtetgen  (the default params should work in this case)

fiber field and output tet mesh of brain goes to

clipfieldwithfieldorwidget

resulting in a clipped fiber field.

Good luck,

Darrell

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Sanket Jain <jainsanket1@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Folks,

Is there any way to crop a scirun field with respect to scirun tri-surface? In my case, I have a brain surface (trisurf field) and fibers(field, output of tend fiber module). Some part of the fiber is outside the brain surface while most of it is inside the surface. I want to crop the part of the fiber which is outside the surface while retaining the part of the fiber which is inside the surface.

Let me know if you require anything to help me out.

Sanket Jain

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