3rd Party Diffusion MRI Software

This page is a repository for information about programs that other people have written to process and visualize diffusion MRI data. By examining features of these other programs, we may get inspiration for improvements in our own work.

Name	Platform	src	inst	Notes
3D Slicer	Lin, Win, Mac	Y	N
FSL	Lin, Win, Mac	Y	N	GUI, plus CLI for individual processing steps. Contains FLIRT, etc.
MedINRIA	Lin, Win, Mac	N	N
Camino	Java	Y	N	No GUI. CLI for individual processing steps, connected by Unix pipes. Diverse collection of algorithmic alternatives.
Teem	Lin, Win, Mac	Y	N	Gordon Kindlmann's library of raster filtering utilities, under active development.
DTI-Query	Lin, Win, Mac	Y	N
CINCH	Lin, Win, Mac	N	N
MRI Studio (formerly DTI Studio)	Win	N	N
Trackvis and Diffusion Toolkit	Lin, Win, Mac	N	N	Despite the name, Diffusion Toolkit is a GUI program, not a library.
Freesurfer	Lin, Mac	N	N	GUI, plus CLI for individual processing steps.
Brain Voyager	Lin, Win, Mac	N	N	Commercial license for all users.
SPM	Matlab	Y	N	Designed for data sequences, as found in fMRI studies.
XMedCon	Lin, Win	Y	Y	Command-line converter for various medical imaging file formats
AMIDE	Lin, Win	Y	N	Graphical tool similar to FSL for viewing, registration, etc.
DICOM3tools	Lin, Win, OSX	Y	N	Command-line tool for reading DICOM headers, written by a member of the DICOM standards committee

See Also

• 3rd Party Visualization Software, which includes toolkits whose functionality is a superset of diffusion MRI processing.