[MINC-users] mincdti - Diffusion Tensor calculation in MINC.

[Andrew Janke]

I have placed a MINC DTI package here:

   http://www.cmr.uq.edu.au/~rotor/distro/src/mincdti-1.0.tar.gz

There is also a Debian Linux package here:

   http://www.cmr.uq.edu.au/~rotor/distro/deb/mincdti-1.0-linux-2.4-intel.deb

As per usuall there is not much documentation for it (yet) beyond 'mincdti
-help'.

There are however a few example B-matrix files in the source distribution in the
examples/ sub-directory.  The basic idea is to:

 1) create a bmatrix for your experiment that describes the directions and
      diffusion encoding strengths of the sequence.

 2) run mincdti to resolve the tensor

    mincdti -b_matrix foo.bmat file1.mnc file2.mnc .... <output_base>

    You must have the same number of input files as you have lines
     in your bmatrix file.

 3) run mincdti_maps (a perl script that uses minccalc) to calculate the tensor
      metrics you would like:

    mincdti_maps -FA -ADC <output_base_from_above>



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