[Mrtrix-discussion] Course

Tue Dec 16 04:14:23 PST 2014

Thanks Ivan, good suggestion. I'll get that done when I have a minute.
Cheers,
Donald.

On 15 December 2014 at 15:49, Ivan Alvarez <ivan.alvarez.11 at ucl.ac.uk>
wrote:
>
>  Hi Donald,
>
> Quick suggestion: putting a link on the Mrtrix 0.2 page
> <http://www.brain.org.au/software/mrtrix/> pointing to the GitHub wiki
> would be pretty useful. The former still appears first when you google
> MRtrix (I get a few lost souls asking about v0.2 every now and then).
>
> Kind regards,
> Ivan Alvarez
>
> PhD Candidate
> Imaging and Biophysics Unit
> UCL Institute of Child Health
> 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH
>
> On 15/12/2014 3:13, J-Donald Tournier wrote:
>
> Hi Francesco,
>
>  No, we don't run such courses, I don't think there would be enough
> demand for it (?). I do get the odd query on the topic, but that's about it.
>
>  That said, I do think it would be good to have a bit more information
> than the current documentation (particularly for the MRtrix3 version...).
> I'm not sure what people would find most useful. One idea that we'd
> discussed in the past was to provide a sample dataset combined with
> tutorials and worked examples that people could run through on their own
> computers. I think this might be the best way forward, I'll have a look
> into this when I have a minute. Those using MRtrix3 will have noticed that
> we have a wiki on GitHub, which should allow other users to add to the
> documentation where they feel it's lacking (contributions are always
> welcome!). This would probably be the most obvious place to expand,
> especially since development on MRtrix 0.2.X has been essentially stagnant
> for the last 3-4 years... If anyone feel like contributing by adding to the
> wiki, providing data for a tutorial, writing a tutorial, or simply
> expression your opinion on the topic, please feel free to dive in!
>
>  Cheers,
> Donald.
>
>
> On 14 December 2014 at 13:05, Francesco Sammartino <
> francesco.sammartino.nch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>> I'm enthusiastic about mrtrix. Is there any hands on course / bootcamp on
>> it?
>> thank you
>>
>> Francesco Sammartino MD
>> On Dec 14, 2014 7:52 AM, "J-Donald Tournier" <jdtournier at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Manuel,
>>>
>>> I don't think that can be done - the tensor tracking algorithm in MRtrix
>>> takes the raw DWI as input, so that it can do interpolation on the raw DW
>>> signals. I'm guessing the tensor images produced by DTI-TK have been
>>> non-linearly registered, so there's no way of using the original DWI. One
>>> potential way around it would be to generate some fake DWI signals from the
>>> DTI-TK output and feed that to streamtrack. Sounds a little too much of a
>>> hack for comfort though, not sure I'd recommend that - mind you, I wouldn't
>>> recommend tensor tracking in the first place either...
>>>
>>> Another approach worth exploring would be do the tracking in native
>>> space and warp the tracks to the other space afterwards, using the approach
>>> outlined here:
>>> http://www.brain.org.au/software/mrtrix/faq.html#normalise_tracks
>>> I'm sure that idea could be adapted for DTI-TK too.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Donald
>>>
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>>> On 12 Dec 2014 10:40, "Manuel Blesa Cábez" <mblesac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> I have a doubt, is possible to convert tensor images of DTI-TK to do
>>>> the tractography with MRtrix? Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Manuel Blesa
>>>>
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