""" .. _ex-virtual-evoked: ======================= Remap MEG channel types ======================= In this example, MEG data are remapped from one channel type to another. This is useful to: - visualize combined magnetometers and gradiometers as magnetometers or gradiometers. - run statistics from both magnetometers and gradiometers while working with a single type of channels. """ # Author: Mainak Jas # License: BSD-3-Clause # Copyright the MNE-Python contributors. # %% import mne from mne.datasets import sample print(__doc__) # read the evoked data_path = sample.data_path() meg_path = data_path / "MEG" / "sample" fname = meg_path / "sample_audvis-ave.fif" evoked = mne.read_evokeds(fname, condition="Left Auditory", baseline=(None, 0)) # %% # First, let's call remap gradiometers to magnometers, and plot # the original and remapped topomaps of the magnetometers. # go from grad + mag to mag and plot original mag virt_evoked = evoked.as_type("mag") fig = evoked.plot_topomap(ch_type="mag") fig.suptitle("mag (original)") # %% # plot interpolated grad + mag fig = virt_evoked.plot_topomap(ch_type="mag") fig.suptitle("mag (interpolated from mag + grad)") # %% # Now, we remap magnometers to gradiometers, and plot # the original and remapped topomaps of the gradiometers # go from grad + mag to grad and plot original grad virt_evoked = evoked.as_type("grad") fig = evoked.plot_topomap(ch_type="grad") fig.suptitle("grad (original)") # %% # plot interpolated grad + mag fig = virt_evoked.plot_topomap(ch_type="grad") fig.suptitle("grad (interpolated from mag + grad)")