The MITK-Diffusion application offers a selection of image analysis algorithms for the processing of diffusion-weighted MR images. It encompasses the research of the Neuroimaging Group in the Division Medical and Biological Informatics at the German Cancer Research Center (dkfz).

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'''Features & Highlights'''

 * Tensor and q-ball reconstruction
 * Glyph visualization
 * Quantification and partial volume clustering of tensor and q-ball images
 * Global fiber tractography, visualization, and tract post-processing
 * Brain network statistics and visualization (connectomics)
 * Interactive exploration of Tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) results 
 * Intra-voxel incoherent motion (IVIM) estimation

The MITK-Diffusion application is based on the MITK research platform and the most of it is open-source. Solely the tract-based spatial statistics viewer and the brain network statistics module were not released yet, mainly due to some major internal changes expected in the near future. The available code is embedded into the source code of MITK as a module and can be accessed through the public git repository.

User manual

You can access the MITK-Diffusion online documentation here

You can download the MITK-Diffusion information brochure here

Media

Publication: MITK-DI - A new diffusion imaging component for MITK. In Deserno TM, Handels H, Meinzer HP, Tolxdorff T (eds). Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2010. Heidelberg: Springer (2010) 246-250 <
> Authors: Fritzsche KH¹, Meinzer H-P¹<
> Institution: ¹German Cancer Research Center

Downloads

Version 2011 ( Release date: 02-11-2011 )

Requirements

Additional system specific requirements:

Windows
- If you have problems running the Windows application, please install the Microsoft Redistributable Packages for VS 2008: 32 bit or 64 bit
Linux
- the Qt framework, version 4.6.2 or later
- the tar.gz archive needs to be extracted into a folder whithout whitespaces in the path
OS X
- the Qt framework, version 4.6.2 or later

Tested systems

Windows 7, Windows Vista
Ubuntu 10.04 and newer
OS X 10.6 and newer

Available installer

Windows
- [[ https://www.mitk.org/download/MITK-Diffusion-2011_Windows_32Bit.exe | MS Windows (32 bit) installer]]
- [[ https://www.mitk.org/download/MITK-Diffusion-2011_Windows_64Bit.exe | MS Windows (64 bit) installer]]
Linux
- Ubuntu (32 bit), tar.gz archive
- Ubuntu (64 bit), tar.gz archive
Mac OS X
- OS X disk image (.dmg)

Contact

If you have questions about the application or if you would like to give us feedback, don't hesitate to contact us.

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