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http://www.pstnet.com/hardware.cfm?ID=92

MRI Simulator that provides a realistic approximation of an actual MRI scanner to allow habituation and training of participants in an environment less daunting than a real scanner. Special populations such as children, the elderly, and psychiatric patients, are often prone to claustrophobia and anxiety in the bore of a magnet, and consequently have a much higher rate of terminating the experiment or scan session before its completion. Some centers that have dealt with these populations estimate a 50%-80% failure rate. With the use of the MRI Simulator this failure rate can often be reduced below 5%, improving cost effectiveness.

Proper citation: PST MRI Simulator (RRID:SCR_002460) Copy   

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http://www.brain.org.au/software/

A collection of tools that generate numerical fiber structures with the complexity of human white matter and simulate Diffusion-Weighted MR images that would arise from them. Its primary use is to enable the testing of tracking algorithms

Proper citation: Numerical Fibre Generator (RRID:SCR_002457) Copy   

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http://www.pstnet.com/hardware.cfm?ID=90

MRI Digital Projection System that uses Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology providing microsecond pixel rise times, outstanding contrast with all-digital fiber optic control that allows you to project crystal clear, sharp images. Includes: * High resolution (1024x768) DLP Projector with RF filtered enclosure, custom lens assembly, digital video (DVI) over fiber, high flow fans, internal thermal sensor * Control room device to perform DVI to Fiber conversion, remotely power down the projector, and allow use of projector remote control from control room * 30 meter fiber optic cable that runs between the projector and projector control station * Heavy duty, magnet compatible, projector stand (assembly required) * Heavy duty, magnet compatible mirror stand with mirror (assembly required) * High resolution, lenticular pitch rear projection screen for high quality image reproduction * Optional VGA to DVI converter (native DVI video cards on Windows or Macintosh recommended)

Proper citation: MRI Digital Projection System (RRID:SCR_002486) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/gestr/

A cross platform, open source gesture tracking program. You launch it from the web, and use it to streamline the way you communicate with the computer. It allows for a more natural method of issuing commands than with keyboard shortcuts or GUI buttons. GesTr supports simple XML files to customize recognized gestures and their corresponding actions. GesTr also has experimental support for the Wii Remote used with an infrared pen as an alternative input device.

Proper citation: GesTr (RRID:SCR_000857) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/dft/

A loose collection of programs and configuration options that intend to make working with data more transparent to formats. Currently available is a basic specification for NIfTI-1 for the UNIX file command and proof of concept code for the concept of treating data as an abstract concept and instantiating physical instances on demand.

Proper citation: Data Format Tools (RRID:SCR_000856) Copy   

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http://mousetracker.jbfreeman.net

A free, user-friendly software package that allows researchers to record and analyze hand movements traveling toward potential responses on the screen (via the x, y coordinates of the computer mouse). By looking at the dynamics of how participants' hand movements settle into a response alternative--and how they may be partially pulled toward other alternatives--researchers glean valuable information about real-time cognitive processing. It's like opening up a single reaction time into a continuous stream of rich cognitive output. MouseTracker has impressive temporal resolution, comparable to eye-tracking and event-related brain potential (ERP) measures. Experiments can incorporate images, letter strings, sounds, and videos. Once recorded, mouse trajectories can be visualized, averaged, and explored, and measures of attraction/curvature, complexity, velocity, and acceleration can be computed. Precise characterizations of mouse trajectories' temporal and spatial dynamics are available, and these can shed light on a variety of important empirical questions across psychology, cognitive science, and beyond.

Proper citation: MouseTracker (RRID:SCR_005979) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/vvhistomatch/

Software tool for MRI intensity standardization by aligning histograms of higher dimensions. The methods defined in http://www5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Forschung/Publikationen/2006/Jaeger06-ANM.pdf are implemented as and ITK filter.

Proper citation: VectorValuedHistogramNormalizer (RRID:SCR_000082) Copy   

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http://niftilib.sourceforge.net/pynifti/

PyNIfTI is no longer actively developed. At has been superseded by NiBabel -- a pure-Python package that provides everything that PyNIfTI could do, and a lot more. The PyNIfTI module is a Python interface to the NIfTI I/O libraries. Using PyNIfTI, one can easily read and write NIfTI and ANALYZE images from within Python. The NiftiImage class provides pythonic access to the full header information and for a maximum of interoperability the image data is made available via NumPy arrays.

Proper citation: PyNIfTI (RRID:SCR_000693) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/medvr/

This resouce will centralize development of tools for interaction with medical imaging data in immersive virtual environments (based on the Vizard platform).

Proper citation: Medical Image Processing and Visualization in Virtual Environments (RRID:SCR_001751) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/mrcap/

Based on JIST and MIPAV, this pipeline combines structural magnetic resonance data with diffusion tensor imaging to estimate a connectome, which is a comprehensive description of the wiring diagram of the brain.

Proper citation: MR Connectome Automated Pipeline (RRID:SCR_002252) Copy   

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http://enigma.ini.usc.edu/

Network that brings together researchers in imaging genomics, to understand brain structure and function, based on MRI, DTI, fMRI and genomewide association scan (GWAS) data. The ENIGMA Network has several goals: * to create a network of like-minded individuals, interested in pushing forward the field of imaging genetics * to ensure promising findings are replicated via member collaborations, in order to satisfy the mandates of most journals * to share ideas, algorithms, data, and information on promising findings or methods * to facilitate training, including workshops and conferences on key methods and emerging directions in imaging genetics. Data sharing with other members of the ENIGMA Network is optional and by no means a requirement of joining the network. Genetics and Imaging Protocols are available.

Proper citation: ENIGMA: Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics Through Meta-Analysis (RRID:SCR_005515) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/asl_spm8/

Quick ASL Wrapper for preprocessing arterial spin labeled (ASL) Data and computing blood flow measurements using UPenn ASL toolbox.

Proper citation: ASL spm8 (RRID:SCR_008873) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/antsr

An R extension to ANTs that performs multivariate statistical parametric mapping of DTI, T1 and other datatypes for the purpose of both performing clinical studies and for tracking the performance of ANTs (and other) image processing methodologies. ANTsR depends upon the R statistical language, bash scripts and the ANTs toolkit. Some branches of ANTsR will also depend upon pipedream and specific datasets. Some of these datasets will be open access and, in that case, ANTsR will provide a 100% reproducible neuroimaging study on that data.

Proper citation: ANTsR (RRID:SCR_008891) Copy   

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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

NLM collects, organizes, and makes available biomedical science information to scientists, health professionals, and the public. The Library's Web-based databases, including PubMed/Medline and MedlinePlus, are used extensively around the world. NLM conducts and supports research in biomedical communications; creates information resources for molecular biology, biotechnology, toxicology, and environmental health; and provides grant and contract support for training, medical library resources, and biomedical informatics and communications research. Celebrating its 175th anniversary in 2011, the National Library of Medicine (NLM), in Bethesda, Maryland, is a part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Since its founding in 1836 as the library of the U.S. Army Surgeon General, NLM has played a pivotal role in translating biomedical research into practice. It is the world's largest biomedical library and the developer of electronic information services that deliver trillions of bytes of data to millions of users every day. Scientists, health professionals, and the public in the United States and around the globe search the Library's online information resources more than 1 billion times each year. The Library is open to all and has many services and resources for scientists, health professionals, historians, and the general public. NLM has over 17 million books, journals, manuscripts, audiovisuals, and other forms of medical information on its shelves, making it the largest health-science library in the world. In today's increasingly digital world, NLM carries out its mission of enabling biomedical research, supporting health care and public health, and promoting healthy behavior by: * Acquiring, organizing, and preserving the world's scholarly biomedical literature; * Providing access to biomedical and health information across the country in partnership with the 5,800-member National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM); * Serving as a leading global resource for building, curating and providing sophisticated access to molecular biology and genomic information, including those from the Human Genome Project and NIH Common Fund; * Creating high-quality information services relevant to toxicology and environmental health, health services research, and public health; * Conducting research and development on biomedical communications systems, methods, technologies, and networks and information dissemination and utilization among health professionals, patients, and the general public; * Funding advanced biomedical informatics research and serving as the primary supporter of pre- and post-doctoral research training in biomedical informatics at 18 U.S. universities.

Proper citation: National Library of Medicine (RRID:SCR_011446) Copy   

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https://vpixx.com/products/viewpixx/

Research-grade, CRT-replacement LCD display system for vision science and psychophysics. It combines a 22.5″ 1920×1200 industrial LCD (wide 176°/176° viewing angles) with a custom panel/video controller engineered for deterministic stimulus timing and synchronized acquisition. The display supports 12-bit intensity resolution per RGB channel via custom video modes. It uses a scanning RGB LED backlight to improve temporal precision (e.g., crisp frame transitions and reduced motion artifacts) while bypassing consumer “enhancement” processing to keep output predictable for experiments. VIEWPixx also integrates microsecond-synchronized peripherals commonly needed in timing-sensitive paradigms—24-channel TTL I/O (triggers), stereo audio I/O, analog I/O, and a button-box interface—implemented on the same board as the video pipeline for tight hardware-to-video synchronization.

Proper citation: VIEWPixx (RRID:SCR_013271) Copy   

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https://vpixx.com/hardware/projector/

Unique DLP LED projector which has been designed to be the most flexible display solution for vision research and neuroscience research. The PROPixx features a native resolution of 1920 x 1080, and can be driven with refresh rate up to 500Hz with deterministic timing. The PROPixx uses high brightness LEDs as a light source, giving a wide colour gamut and much longer lifetime than halogen light sources. It features high-bit depth, up to 12-bit per color for high-frequency full colour stimulation. For stereo vision applications, our high-speed ferro-electric circular polarizer can project stereoscopic stimuli with the use of passive glasses at up to 400Hz. In addition the PROPixx includes an array of peripherals which often need to be synchronized to video during an experiment, and with perfect microsecond precision.

Proper citation: PROPixx (RRID:SCR_013299) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/bic-mni-models/

Anatomical brain template library which includes models from ICBM 2009 template.Number of unbiased non-linear averages of MNI152 database have been generated that combines attractions of both high-spatial resolution and signal-to-noise while not being subject to vagaries of any single brain. Procedure involved multiple iterations of process where, at each iteration, individual native MRIs were non-linearly fitted to the average template from previous iteration, beginning with MNI152 linear template.

Proper citation: bic-mni-models (RRID:SCR_014087) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/uncuw_macdevmri/

A macaque brain MRI database characterizing the normal postnatal macaque brain development. This longitudinal primate database was acquired from a cohort of healthy macaque monkeys ranging from a few week olds up to 3-year-old adolescents. Each scan consists of structural (both T1 and T2) and diffusion MRI.

Proper citation: UNC-Wisconsin Neurodevelopment Rhesus MRI Database (RRID:SCR_014177) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/sim_dwi_brain/

This resource provides simulated DW-MRI brain images and quantitative tools for evaluating the performance of diffusion analysis methods in terms of fiber orientation estimation and false-positive/-negative fiber rates, which are of fundamental importance to tractography based studies. DW data was generated using a multi-tensor model at SNRs of 9, 18 and 36, for sets of 20, 30, 40, 60, 90 and 120 gradient directions. For each combination of SNR and gradient direction set, 10 realizations of data are provided. All data is simulated with a diffusion-weighting of b=1000, as is common for clinical acquisitions.

Proper citation: Simulated DW-MRI Brain Data Sets for Quantitative Evaluation of Estimated Fiber Orientations (RRID:SCR_014168) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/spikecor_fmri/

This algorithm corrects for spikes in fMRI data, typically caused by abrupt head motion during scanning. It identifies outliers using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in a sliding time-window; it is sensitive to global motion artifact, and stable against non-stationary signal changes.

Proper citation: SPIKECOR: fMRI tool for automated correction of head motion spikes (RRID:SCR_014169) Copy   

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