Dear FreeSurfer users,

 

It is my pleasure to announce that our new tool to segment the thalamic nuclei from structural MR scans is available in the development version of FreeSurfer. The tool relies on an atlas derived from manual annotations made on histological sections. The module can analyze the main FreeSurfer T1 scan, but also supports MR images with contrasts other than T1 – as long as the corresponding T1 has been processed with recon-all. If you’ve got images processed with an earlier version of FreeSurfer, you don’t need to process them again with the development version; you can directly run the new module on your existing processed subjects.

 

You can find the documentation, including a link to a preprint of the paper, in the wiki:

https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/ThalamicNuclei

 

As with any other FreeSurfer tool (particularly those that have been recently released), we appreciate any feedback that you might have.

 

Kind regards,

 

/Eugenio

 

 

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