A rolling pin for brain chunks

Authors: Faruk Gulban and Renzo Huber | Copyeditor: Lea Maria Ferguson |  Published: June 2021

Flat things are simple. Cortical things (layers) are convoluted which makes them complicated. Then, how can we turn cortical things into flat things? If you are struggling with flattening your convoluted cortex chunks this post is for you! We are going to explain how to make (and bake!) flat chunks of brain using two new additions to LayNii (v2.1.0): LN2_MULTILATERATE and LN2_PATCH_FLATTEN.

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Avocado toast of layering algorithms

Authors: Faruk Gulban and Renzo Huber | Copyeditor: Lea Maria Ferguson | Published: May 2020

I have written about layered cakes and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) before [here1, here2]. Following the *true millennial spirit* now it is time to broaden the menu by adding another delicious snack. And this time, this snack will taste even better because I have good company! A brilliant scientist (and a talented cook, too) @layer-fMRI and I are going to describe one of our recipes in this blog post (LN2_LAYERS program in LAYNII v1.5.5).

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