read.fs.surface.byu

The BYU or Brigham Young University format is an old ASCII mesh format that is based on fixed character positions in lines (as opposed to whitespace-separated elements). I consider it a bit counter-intuitive.

Provides functions to read and write neuroimaging data in various file formats, with a focus on 'FreeSurfer' <http://freesurfer.net/> formats. This includes, but is not limited to, the following file formats: 1) MGH/MGZ format files, which can contain multi-dimensional images or other data. Typically they contain time-series of three-dimensional brain scans acquired by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). They can also contain vertex-wise measures of surface morphometry data. The MGH format is named after the Massachusetts General Hospital, and the MGZ format is a compressed version of the same format. 2) 'FreeSurfer' morphometry data files in binary 'curv' format. These contain vertex-wise surface measures, i.e., one scalar value for each vertex of a brain surface mesh. These are typically values like the cortical thickness or brain surface area at each vertex. 3) Annotation file format. This contains a brain surface parcellation derived from a cortical atlas. 4) Surface file format. Contains a brain surface mesh, given by a list of vertices and a list of faces.

Tim Schc3<a4>fer

freesurferformats

Read and Write 'FreeSurfer' Neuroimaging File Formats

Tim Schäfer

read.fs.surface.byu function

<dl><dt>filepath</dt>
<dd>full path of the file in BYU format.</dd>
<dt>part</dt>
<dd>positive integer, the index of the mesh that should be loaded from the file. Only relevant if the file contains more than one mesh.</dd></dl>

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Read mesh in BYU format. — read.fs.surface.byu

<dl>

<dt>filepath</dt>
<dd>full path of the file in BYU format.</dd>


<dt>part</dt>
<dd>positive integer, the index of the mesh that should be loaded from the file. Only relevant if the file contains more than one mesh.</dd>

</dl>

read.fs.surface.byu: Read mesh in BYU format.

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