Applying this matrix to a FreeSurfer surface RAS coordinate (from a surface file like lh.white) will give you the voxel index (CRS) in a conformed FreeSurfer volume. The returned matrix is the inverse of the vox2ras_tkr matrix.
See also
Other surface and volume coordinates:
vox2ras_tkr()
Examples
# Compute the FreeSurfer CRS voxel index of surface RAS coordinate (0.0, 0.0, 0.0):
ras2vox_tkr() %*% c(0, 0, 0, 1);
#> [,1]
#> [1,] 128
#> [2,] 128
#> [3,] 128
#> [4,] 1
# Show that the voxel at surface RAS corrds (0.0, 0.0, 0.0) is the one with CRS (128, 128, 128):
ras2vox_tkr() %*% c(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1);
#> [,1]
#> [1,] 128
#> [2,] 128
#> [3,] 128
#> [4,] 1