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FreeSurfer Tutorial Datasets

Installation

The following commands will install a complete tutorial_data directory (~8GB) on your machine:

curl https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/data/tutorial_data.tar.gz -o tutorial_data.tar.gz
tar -xzvf tutorial_data.tar.gz
rm tutorial_data.tar.gz

Configuration

In order to run the tutorials, users must define an environment variable called TUTORIAL_DATA, which must be set to the tutorial_data root directory containing the extracted data (i.e. the directories 'buckner_data', 'long-tutorial', 'fsfast-functional', etc.). The tutorials make frequent use of the TUTORIAL_DATA environment variable and it need to be set properly for any of the tutorials to work. For example:

export TUTORIAL_DATA=/path/to/your/tutorial/dir
ls $TUTORIAL_DATA

buckner_data                    fsfast-functional
diffusion_recons                fsfast-tutorial.subjects
diffusion_tutorial              long-tutorial

If you see something similar to the above output, you are now ready to start the Freesurfer tutorials.


FreeSurfer Tutorial Datasets 5.1/5.3

Below are links to the previous versions of the tutorial dataset that correspond to freesurfer version 5.1 and 5.3: