DCE vs DSC

• DCE-MRI: Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI.
  • T1 Longitudinal Relaxation
  • Parameters
    • Ktrans: Tissue perfusion and Microvascular vessel wall permeability
    • Ve: Extracellular volume fraction
• DSC-MRI: Dynamic Susceptibility MRI.
  • T2 Transverse Relaxation
  • Parameters
    • Blood flow
    • CBV Blood volume
    • MTT Mean Transit Time

For a short script I was writing I needed to convert a string representation of the month (“month name”) into a numerical value (“month number”). A quick google led to many solutions to the inverse problem, which to me seems a lot easier. Here is a quick and dirty solution that uses the calendar module.

import calendar

list(calendar.month_name).index(month_name)

I chose to use the calendar module array month_name because I would rather not have to create a list of month names myself.