BrainStructure

from mcot.surface.cortical_mesh import BrainStructure

class mcot.surface.cortical_mesh.BrainStructure(primary, secondary=None, hemisphere='both', geometry=None)

Which brain structure does the parent object describe?

__init__(primary, secondary=None, hemisphere='both', geometry=None)

Creates a new brain structure.

Parameters

• primary – Name of the brain structure (e.g. cortex, thalamus)

• secondary – Further specification of which part of the brain structure is described (e.g. ‘white’ or ‘pial’ for the cortex)

• hemisphere – which hemisphere is the brain structure in (‘left’, ‘right’, or ‘both’)

• geometry – does the parent object describe the ‘volume’ or the ‘surface’

Inheritance diagram

Methods

from_string(value[, issurface])

Parses a string to find out which brain structure is being described.

Attributes

cifti	Returns a description of the brain structure needed to define the surface in a CIFTI file.
gifti	Returns the keywords needed to define the surface in the meta information of a GIFTI file.

from_string

classmethod BrainStructure.from_string(value, issurface=None)

Parses a string to find out which brain structure is being described.

Parameters

• value – string to be parsed

• issurface – defines whether the object describes the volume or surface of the brain structure (default: surface if the brain structure is the cortex volume otherwise)