DTMRI: Diffusion Tensor MRI Visualization

Summary

Its developers are in the MIT Computer Science and AI Lab (CSAIL) Medical Vision Group, and the Lab for Mathematics in Imaging (LMI) at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Information about obtaining the software can be found at the NA-MIC Slicer page.

People Involved

• Primary Designers and Developers
  • Lauren O'Donnell (2001-present)
  • Raul San-Jose Estepar (2003-present)
  • Carl-Fredrik Westin
• Contributors
  • Carlos Isorna (Scan protocols)
  • Maxime Boucher (Bspline tractography)
  • Matthan Caan (Tensor registration)

Instruction

• DTMRI Module Tutorial on the NA-MIC wiki site
• A different DTMRI Module Tutorial on the NA-MIC wiki site
• DTMRI module in the Slicer User's Guide (a bit out-of-date)

Applications

• Neurosurgical application of the DTMRI module

Groups using DTMRI

• LMI
• Surgical Planning Lab
• Golby Lab
• NA-MIC, the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (Slicer wiki page)
• Morphometry BIRN

Development Links

• Tcl code and C++ code documentation (under vtkDTMRI and vtkTensorUtil)
• NA-MIC Programming Week
• Foundational Model Explorer anatomical naming convention
  (potentially will be used for neuroanatomical labeling).
• NA-MIC DTI Community