get_branching_depth

biophysics_fitting.get_branching_depth(cell, sec, beyond_dist=1000)

Given a Cell object and a section number, this method returns the branching depth (i.e. branching order) of that section. It counts the amount of sections that have children beyond some distance beyond_dist inbetween the soma and the given section sec.

If this number is 0, that means that the given section, and all its parent sections up to the soma, have no children (that exceed a distance to soma of beyond_dist).

Parameters:
cell : Cell

The Cell object

sec : int

The section number

Returns:

Amount of sections between sec and soma that have at least 2 children that are further from the soma than beyond_dist

Return type:

int