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How to Prepare for the FreeSurfer Course

COURSE MATERIALS

In general, feel free to go through any of the slides and tutorials that we'll be covering during the course. They can be found here:
http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial

Not all of the slides are up or updated yet, but feel free to look at what is there.

UNIX
If you are unfamiliar with UNIX, it may help to do this online tutorial:
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/

SCRIPTING
Scripting will not be covered during the course, but following are some good references:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1299
https://supportweb.cs.bham.ac.uk/documentation/tutorials/docsystem/build/tutorials/unixscripting/unixscripting.html

MR
If you are unfamiliar with MR physics, you can read up on it here:
http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/

There will be an optional talk that will go over the basics of MR physics.

FREESURFER
You can read up on the techniques and applications of FreeSurfer here (found under the References section):
https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/

You can download FreeSurfer and process your own data. Instructions on installation are here:
https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/QuickInstall

DIFFUSION
Here is a nice overview of diffusion analysis if you are attending one of our "diffusion-themed" courses: <<br>> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3163395/

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Here is a nice overview of diffusion analysis if you are attending one of our "diffusion-themed" courses:

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3163395/