Read FreeSurfer ASCII format surface.

read.fs.surface.asc(filepath)

Arguments

filepath

string. Full path to the input surface file in ASCII surface format.

Value

named list. The list has the following named entries: "vertices": nx3 double matrix, where n is the number of vertices. Each row contains the x,y,z coordinates of a single vertex. "faces": nx3 integer matrix. Each row contains the vertex indices of the 3 vertices defining the face. WARNING: The indices are returned starting with index 1 (as used in GNU R). Keep in mind that you need to adjust the index (by substracting 1) to compare with data from other software.

Note

This is also known as *srf* format.

See also