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MRG: inferior-posterior to inferior-superior Typo / thinko in brain axis naming.
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doc/source/coordinate_systems.rst

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If the subject is lying in the usual position for a brain scan, face up
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and head first in the scanner, then scanner-left/right is also the left-right
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axis of the subject's head, scanner-floor/ceiling is the anterior-posterior
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axis of the head and scanner-bore is the inferior-posterior axis of the head.
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axis of the head and scanner-bore is the inferior-superior axis of the head.
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Sometimes the subject is not lying in the standard position. For example, the
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subject may be lying with their face pointing to the right (in terms of the
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floor. This axis goes from left to right in the subject, with positive values
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to the right. The second (Y) axis would be scanner-left/right
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(anterior-posterior in the subject), and the Z axis would be scanner-bore
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(inferior-posterior).
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(inferior-superior).
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Naming reference spaces
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