dwiintensitynorm

Synopsis

Performs a global DWI intensity normalisation on a group of subjects using the median b=0 white matter value as the reference

Usage

dwiintensitynorm input_dir mask_dir output_dir fa_template wm_mask [ options ]
  • input_dir: The input directory containing all DWI images
  • mask_dir: Input directory containing brain masks, corresponding to one per input image (with the same file name prefix)
  • output_dir: The output directory containing all of the intensity normalised DWI images
  • fa_template: The output population specific FA template, which is threshold to estimate a white matter mask
  • wm_mask: The output white matter mask (in template space), used to estimate the median b=0 white matter value for normalisation

Description

The white matter mask is estimated from a population average FA template then warped back to each subject to perform the intensity normalisation. Note that bias field correction should be performed prior to this step.

Options

Options for the dwiintensitynorm script

  • -fa_threshold The threshold applied to the Fractional Anisotropy group template used to derive an approximate white matter mask

Standard options

  • -continue <TempDir> <LastFile> Continue the script from a previous execution; must provide the temporary directory path, and the name of the last successfully-generated file
  • -force Force overwrite of output files if pre-existing
  • -help Display help information for the script
  • -nocleanup Do not delete temporary files during script, or temporary directory at script completion
  • -nthreads number Use this number of threads in MRtrix multi-threaded applications (0 disables multi-threading)
  • -tempdir /path/to/tmp/ Manually specify the path in which to generate the temporary directory
  • -quiet Suppress all console output during script execution
  • -info Display additional information and progress for every command invoked
  • -debug Display additional debugging information over and above the output of -info

Author: David Raffelt (david.raffelt@florey.edu.au)

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2008-2017 the MRtrix3 contributors.

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