Type

This function returns type of compartment. Each compartment of the neuron is of a particular type; soma = 1, axon =2, basal dendrites =3, apical dendrites=4. The type values are assigned directly from the given input neuron.

Function Output Type : Integer

Calculated : At each tracing point

Returns a value : For specific type of the arbor

Command Line Usage Function : "-f8, 0, 0, 10.0"

Output:

Metric	Total_Sum	#Compartments (considered)	#Compartments (discarded)	Minimum	Average	Maximum	S.D.
TYPE	5826	1554	(0)	1	3.4	4	.6854

*All units are in microns

Values to consider : Min, Max

Output Interpretation :

This example above returns the Total_Sum of the compartments that has type, minimum, maximum and average values according to the standard output of Lmeasure.

Total_Sum, Minimum, Average, Maximum are of not much relevance because Type is to be observed for each compartment.

References :

This metric helps in ‘specificity’ to limit the analysis of a function to one or more specific type of compartments of the tree.