dwi2mask¶
Synopsis¶
dwi2mask [ options ] image image
- image: the input DWI image containing volumes that are both diffusion weighted and b=0
- image: the output whole brain mask image
Description¶
Generates a whole brain mask from a DWI image. All diffusion weighted and b=0 volumes are used to obtain a mask that includes both brain tissue and CSF. In a second step peninsula-like extensions, where the peninsula itself is wider than the bridge connecting it to the mask, are removed. This may help removing artefacts and non-brain parts, e.g. eyes, from the mask.
Options¶
- -clean_scale value the maximum scale used to cut bridges. A certain maximum scale cuts bridges up to a width (in voxels) of 2x the provided scale. Setting this to 0 disables the mask cleaning step. (Default: 2)
DW gradient table import options¶
- -grad encoding specify the diffusion-weighted gradient scheme used in the acquisition. The program will normally attempt to use the encoding stored in the image header. This should be supplied as a 4xN text file with each line is in the format [ X Y Z b ], where [ X Y Z ] describe the direction of the applied gradient, and b gives the b-value in units of s/mm^2.
- -fslgrad bvecs bvals specify the diffusion-weighted gradient scheme used in the acquisition in FSL bvecs/bvals format.
- -bvalue_scaling mode specifies whether the b-values should be scaled by the square of the corresponding DW gradient norm, as often required for multi-shell or DSI DW acquisition schemes. The default action can also be set in the MRtrix config file, under the BValueScaling entry. Valid choices are yes/no, true/false, 0/1 (default: true).
Standard options¶
- -info display information messages.
- -quiet do not display information messages or progress status.
- -debug display debugging messages.
- -force force overwrite of output files. Caution: Using the same file as input and output might cause unexpected behaviour.
- -nthreads number use this number of threads in multi-threaded applications (set to 0 to disable multi-threading)
- -failonwarn terminate program if a warning is produced
- -help display this information page and exit.
- -version display version information and exit.
References¶
Dhollander T, Raffelt D, Connelly A. Unsupervised 3-tissue response function estimation from single-shell or multi-shell diffusion MR data without a co-registered T1 image. ISMRM Workshop on Breaking the Barriers of Diffusion MRI, 2016, 5.
Author: David Raffelt (david.raffelt@florey.edu.au), Thijs Dhollander (thijs.dhollander@gmail.com) and Ben Jeurissen (ben.jeurissen@uantwerpen.be)
Copyright: Copyright (c) 2008-2016 the MRtrix3 contributors
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