Type

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

Function Output Type : Numeric

Calculated : At Each Tracing Point

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

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.