:: Software ::

iBrain™ is an easy-to-use neuroimage processing and visualisation package developed by David Abbott PhD and his team. From its roots in 1995 as an in-house software platform for functional MRI research, iBrain™ has grown to accommodate many requirements of neuroimaging analysis. iBrain™ can be used stand-alone, or in conjunction with other analysis packages such as SPM.

iBrain™ is now available for download here.

Some additional details regarding iBrain™ can also be found here.

The iBrain™ Analysis Toolbox for SPM is an automated functional MRI analysis pipeline developed and used here at the Brain Research Institute. The toolbox is compatible with SPM2, SPM5 and SPM8. Version 3.0 of the toolbox was presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping, Quebec City, June 2011.

The iBrain™ Analysis Toolbox for SPM is released under the GNU General Public License, and is available for download at here

MRtrix provides a set of tools to perform diffusion-weighted MR white-matter tractography in a manner robust to crossing fibres, using constrained spherical deconvolution (CSD) and probabilistic streamlines.

MRtrix is released under the GNU General Public License, and is available for download at NITRC. Documentation is available here.

NFG is a collection of command-line tools that enable the generation of numerical fibre structures with a range of complexities spanning the levels expected of human white matter. Also included is a tool to simulate the diffusion-weighted MR (DW-MR) images that would arise from these structures under various imaging conditions. The primary use of the 'Numerical Fibre Generator' is to enable the testing of white-matter fibre tracking techniques based on DW-MRI.

All included tools are distributed under the GNU public licence (GPL) and are available for download at NITRC

The iBrain™ Laterality Toolbox is written in Matlab and was used to generate the figures in the following manuscript:

Abbott DF, Waites AB, Lillywhite LM, Jackson GD. fMRI assessment of language lateralization: An objective approach. Neuroimage 50(4):1446-1455 (2010).

All of the functions in this toolbox have now been incorporated into the more general iBrain™ Analysis Toolbox for SPM (see above), however the orginal stand-alone laterality toolbox remains available for download here.