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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 subject's head, scanner-floor/ceiling is the posterior-anterior
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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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system in neuroimaging is called "scanner RAS" (right, anterior, superior).
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Here the scanner axes are reordered and flipped so that the first axis is the
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scanner axis that is closest to the left to right axis of the subject, the
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- second is the closest scanner axis to the anterior- posterior axis of the
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+ second is the closest scanner axis to the posterior-anterior axis of the
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subject, and the third is the closest scanner axis to the inferior-superior
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axis of the subject. For example, if the subject was lying face to the right
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in the scanner, then the first (X) axis of the reference system would be
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scanner-floor/ceiling, but reversed so that positive values are towards 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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+ (posterior-anterior in the subject), and the Z axis would be scanner-bore
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(inferior-superior).
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Naming reference spaces
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