With notes on nibabel support.
PR for some BrainVoyager support at https://github.com/nipy/nibabel/pull/216.
See :
BV files have a internal format that has axes named X, Y and Z. Quoting from the VMR format definition:
BV X front -> back = Y in Tal space
BV Y top -> bottom = Z in Tal space
BV Z left -> right = X in Tal space
Put another way — the correspondence of BV XYZ to Talairach axes is:
or:
Nice!
There appear to be 38 BV file types at the time of writing of which 18 appear to have a page of description on the BV file format index page.
Here are some examples of BV formats: