The ALVIN mask is a 2mm\(^{3}\) image in the same space as MNI. The information about the mask can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/mrilateralventricle/.
## Loading required package: oro.nifti
## oro.nifti 0.10.3
mask_fname = alvin_mask()
mask_fname
## [1] "/home/runner/work/_temp/Library/alvin/ALVIN_mask_v1.nii.gz"
alvin = readnii(mask_fname)
We can read in the ALVIN mask and plot it:
library(MNITemplate)
mni_fname = MNITemplate::getMNIPath("Brain", res = "2mm")
mni = readnii(mni_fname)
ortho2(mni, alvin)