Documentation/Nightly/Extensions/DTIPrep

Introduction and Acknowledgements

Author: Francois Budin
Contributors: Mahshid Farzinfar (1), Zhexing Liu (1), Martin Styner(1),Hans Johnson(2,3,4), Joy Matsui(2), Kent Williams(2); (1=Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2=University of Iowa Department of Psychiatry, 3=University of Iowa Department of Biomedical Engineering, 4=University of Iowa Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Contact: Francois Budin, <email>fbudin@unc.edu</email>
Website: http://www.nitrc.org/projects/dtiprep/
License: BSD

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Extension Description

Quick Tour of Features and Use

The DWI/DTI Quality Control Processes from DICOM data to qualified DWI image.

A list panels in the interface, their features, what they mean, and how to use them.

Input/Ouput: Input/output parameters DWI file [--DWINrrdFile] [-w]: DWI file name to convert dicom image series into or to be checked (nrrd/nhdr) xml Protocol File [--xmlProtocol] [-p]: protocol xml file containing all the parameters Result Note [--resultNotesFile] [-n]: result notes Output Folder [--outputFolder] [-f]: DTIPrep creates the output folder via using both absolute path (starts with "/") and relative path. The realtive path does not start with "/". If the relative path ends with "/" means that the output folder will be created in current location, otherwise the output folder will be created in the same folder as dwi image. Create Default Protocol [--default] [-d]: create default protocol xml file Check by Protocol [--check] [-c]: check by protocol xml file. Default operation

User Interface

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Acknowledgment

This work is part of the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing NAMIC, the IBIS (Infant Brain Imaging Study) Network which is NIH funded Autism Center of Excellence (HDO55741) and additional support is provided by the following grants: NIH grants P50 MH 064065, MH070890, P30 HD03110, R01 MH091645, U54 EB005149-01 (NA-MIC) , R01 NS061965, as well as by the Track-HD project funded by the CHDI/High Q Foundation.

Use Cases

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  DWI image loaded

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  Sphere representing the gradient directions

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Information for Developers

More information as well as the source code can found on the project webpage: http://www.nitrc.org/projects/dtiprep/