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J-Donald Tournier edited this page May 7, 2014 · 49 revisions

MRtrix provides a set of tools to perform diffusion-weighted MRI white matter tractography in the presence of crossing fibres, using Constrained Spherical Deconvolution (Tournier et al.. 2004; Tournier et al. 2007), and a probabilisitic streamlines algorithm (Tournier et al., 2012). These applications have been written from scratch in C++, using the functionality provided by the GNU Scientific Library, and Qt. The software is currently capable of handling DICOM, NIfTI and AnalyseAVW image formats, amongst others. The source code is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

This site is under development - further documentation will be added soon!

Common tasks

Important considerations

Supported platforms & Installation

MRtrix should compile and run on any Unix-like system, provided the GNU Scientific Library, Qt (version >= 4.8) and a working implementation of OpenGL (version > 3) are available on that system.

For installation instructions, please refer to the corresponding platform's instructions:

  • [GNU/Linux](Installing\ on\ Linux)
  • [MS Windows](Installing\ on\ Windows)
  • [MacOS X](Installing\ on\ MacOSX)

Support

A support forum will soon be created for general discussion and user questions. The information on where this is hosted will be updated as soon as it is live.

For development issues and bug reports, please use MRtrix3's issue tracking page.

Development

For those interested in using MRtrix3 as a base to develop their own applications, please consult the Doxygen-generated developer documentation.

Acknowledging this work

If you wish to include results generated using the MRtrix package in a publication, please include a line such as the following to acknowledge this work:

Fibre-tracking was performed using the MRtrix package (J-D Tournier, Brain Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia, https://github.com/jdtournier/mrtrix3) (Tournier et al. 2012)

Any other relevant references will be listed on the specific application's page.

Warranty

The software described in this manual has no warranty, it is provided "as is". It is your responsibility to validate the behavior of the routines and their accuracy using the source code provided, or to purchase support and warranties from commercial redistributors. Consult the GNU General Public License for further details.

License

MRtrix is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

MRtrix is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of GNU General Public License along with MRtrix. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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