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FreeSurfer Beginners Guide

FreeSurfer is a freely available software package developed by investigators at the [http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu: Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging] used for a number of procedures including:

  1. Creation of computerized models of the brain from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. [wiki:FsTutorial/MorphAndRecon link]

  2. Processing of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. [wiki:FsFastTutorial link]

  3. Measuring a number of morphometric properties of the brain including cortical thickness and regional volumes. [https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/ftp/articles/fischl00-cortical-thickness.pdf link]

  4. Intersubject averaging of structural and functional data using a procedure that aligns individuals based on their cortical folding patterns for optimal alignment of homologous neural regions. [https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/ftp/articles/fischl99-morphing.pdf link]

Machine Requirements

Data Requirements

Getting Started

An active [wiki:FreeSurferSupport e-mail list] is available to answer specific questions about processing procedures.