Overview

A new application using a more modern GUI interface can be viewed at

https://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~jbm/fastmap   and downloaded from

https://www.nitrc.org/projects/fastmap


The JIP Toolkit was developed primarily for analysis of preclinical fMRI data, because the widely available neuro-imaging packages proved to be consistently bad at such tasks, although they may have become more flexible in recent years. The toolkit consists of binary executables, highly portable open-source c code, and image resources that enable

  1. automated registration based upon mutual information (affine, non-linear warps), with flexible control and visualization of each step,
  2. visualization of 4-dimensional data using either mosaic or tri-planar display, and integration of general linear models for graphical display of time series analysis,
  3. a simple and flexible 1st-order GLM for fMRI time series analysis,
  4. a GLM for PET analysis within the framework of the simplified reference tissue model,
  5. a 2nd-order GLM analysis following the Worsley 2002 scheme,
  6. a tool for performing smoothing, registration, mapping (etc). using a command interpreter,
  7. MRI templates to place your data into standardized neuro-imaging spaces.


Platforms


All tools use the Linux/Unix environment. The current distribution includes executables for

  • Linux i686 (32-bit),
  • Linux x86_64 (64-bit),
  • Darwin for Mac OS X (universal binary), and
  • Cygwin/X (32-bit) for Windows.

The code is distributed as open source to enable creation of executables for other systems. For any system, the essential components are Linux or Unix plus X11 graphic capabilities.


Download the software

http://www.nitrc.org/projects/jip



Acknowledgement of Support


Like most software developed for scientific research, this work was funded indirectly through projects that required or benefited from its functionality. Support was derived from NIH grants to the developer of this software (Joseph B. Mandeville) and from grants to collaborators. Additional funding came from the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, a collaboration of the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Harvard Medical School. Explicit support for the distribution of this software came from the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB @ NIH) through grant R03EB008134. 


License


Copyright (c) The General Hospital Corporation

All rights reserved.


This agreement ("Software License") covers downloads of the JIP fMRI Analysis Toolkit maintained by The General Hospital Corporation. Your downloading, copying, modifying, distributing, displaying, or use of any software and/or data from the JIP fMRI Analysis Toolkit constitutes acceptance of all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement. If you do not agree to such terms and conditions, you have no right to download, copy, modify, distribute, display, or use the Software.


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Joseph B. Mandeville, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at MGH/MIT/Harvard