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BrainVISA is a modular and customizable software platform built to host heterogeneous tools dedicated to neuroimaging research. Many toolboxes have already been developped for BrainVISA (T1 MRI, sulcal identification and morphometry, cortical surface analysis, diffusion imaging and tractography, fMRI, nuclear imaging, EEG and MEG, TMS, histology and autoradiography, etc.).
BrainVISA main features are:
BrainVISA is developped by french governement founded research organizations (mainly CEA, INSERM, INRIA, CNRS) grouped in a federative research institute: IFR 49. It is a free and open-source software written in Python script language and can be downloaded from: http://brainvisa.info.
See the slides of an introduction to BrainVISA: BrainVISA Advanced Training - Introduction (http://brainvisa.info/doc/axon/intro_bv.pdf)
BrainVISA is available for free download here : http://brainvisa.info/downloadpage.html. Installation instructions: http://brainvisa.info/download.html#installation and the BrainVISA manual (http://brainvisa.info/doc/axon/bv_man/en/html/index.html).
In this tutorial, we will use demonstration data that are available for download here: ftp://ftp.cea.fr/pub/dsv/anatomist/data/demo_data.zip.