Many of BrainSuite’s commonly used functions are accessible via the toolbox below the menu bar. These functions are:
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Open | Open a file |
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Save the primary volume | Save the current primary image file |
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Copy | Copy the current selection to the clipboard |
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About | Display information about BrainSuite |
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Show console | Toggle showing the console with module output |
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Display properties | Toggles the volume display properties dialog box, which displays the currently open volume, overlay, label, and mask files, and lets you set threshold and alpha values. |
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View three channel model | Displays volume file in red, the first overlay layer in green, and the second overlay level in blue. |
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Label painter | Opens the label painter tool dialog box |
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Display the colored outlines of the loaded labels | |
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Display the loaded labels as colored areas | |
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Open the mask editing tool | Opens the mask tool dialog box |
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Apply mask to displayed images | Toggles display of the currently loaded mask |
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Changes the way the mask is displayed. Cycles between outlining the masked area in green; displaying the masked area as a solid white area; hiding the mask; displaying only what’s contained in the mask; and showing the mask as an inverted, translucent area. | |
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Zoom in | Zooms in, centering on the location of the cross-hairs. |
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Zoom out | Zooms out, centering on the location of the cross-hairs. |
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Zoom best fit | Sets the image zoom so that the full image fills the viewing area available to it. |
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Zoom reset | Resets the zoom level |
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XY orientation | Displays the XY plane of the volume. In LPI-oriented volumes, this is equivalent to the axial (horizontal) view. |
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XZ orientation | Displays the XZ plane of the volume. In LPI-oriented volumes, this is equivalent to the coronal view. |
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YZ orientation | Displays the YZ plane of the volume. In LPI-oriented volumes, this is equivalent to the sagittal view. |
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View single slice | Displays the currently selected slice of the volume in a single plane. |
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View orthogonal planes | Displays the currently selected slice of the volume in three planes (xy, xz, and yz). |
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View lightbox 3×3 | Displays the currently selected slice and plane with the next eight slices in the same plane in a 3 by 3 arrangement. |
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Rotate active image 90 degrees counter-clockwise | Rotates the primary volume 90° counter-clockwise. This does not change the volume’s file, only how it’s displayed. |
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Rotate active image 90 degrees clockwise | Rotates the primary volume 90° clockwise. This does not change the volume’s file, only how it’s displayed. |
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Flip active image left-right | Switches the primary volume’s left and right. This does not change the volume’s file, only how it’s displayed. |
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Flip active image up-down | Switches the primary volume’s top and bottom. This does not change the volume’s file, only how it’s displayed. |
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Rotate active image 180 degrees | Rotates the primary volume 180°. This does not change the volume’s file, only how it’s displayed. |
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Reset rotation for active image | Resets the view of the volume to its original orientation. |