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FreeSurfer Tutorial Datasets
The full data for the tutorials consists of several data sets:
buckner_data-tutorial_subjs.tar.gz: the main 'recon-all' stream subject data processing (size: ~16GB uncompressed).
long-tutorial.tar.gz: the longitudinal tutorial (size: ~16GB uncompressed)
fsfast-tutorial.subjects.tar.gz & fsfast-functional.tar.gz: the FS-FAST tutorial data set (size: ~5.6GB uncompressed & ~9.1GB uncompressed, respectively)
diffusion_recons.tar.gz & diffusion_tutorial.tar.gz - the diffusion and Tracula tutorial data sets
Also, if you only want to get started with the basics of FreeSurfer, you need only download the buckner_data set. This will allow you to do the following tutorials:
Installation
Uncompress the files
Once the dataset(s) have been downloaded, uncompress and install with the following command run from a terminal window.
tar -xzvf <filename>.tar.gz
Replacing <filename> with the name of the file downloaded. The downloaded .tar.gz files can then be deleted.
Set variables to point FreeSurfer to data
Once the download is complete you may uncompress the tar files. In order to do the tutorials, users must define an environment variable called TUTORIAL_DATA which is set to the location of the extracted data. For example:
export TUTORIAL_DATA=/home/username/Downloads/tutorial_data ls $TUTORIAL_DATA buckner_data fsfast-functional diffusion_recons fsfast-tutorial.subjects diffusion_tutorial long-tutorial
You are now ready to start the Freesurfer tutorials.
(bash) export TUTORIAL_DATA=<absolute_path_to_tutorial_data_directory> (csh) setenv TUTORIAL_DATA <absolute_path_to_tutorial_data_directory>
Note: The tutorial references the TUTORIAL_DATA variable, which is the root directory containing the tutorial data (ie. the directories 'buckner_data', 'long-tutorial', 'fsfast-functional', etc.).