Cross-sectional processing before Longitudinal

[dbrennan44]

Hi there,
How much of the cross-sectional processing is necessary before the longitudinal pipeline? If I have my dataset complete, and know I'm running longitudinal processing, is there a way to disable the Cortical Thickness (even as workaround, number iterations =0 for example) step in the cross sectional to get to the longitudinal processing faster? Thanks!

[cookpa]

Hi,

The fastest way is to set cortical thickness iterations to 1, and set the group template to "none".

I probably should figure out a better way to do this, because it's not great having suboptimal thickness images in the cross-sectional output.