Hello !
I work for the department of Anatomy (http://www.medecine.unige.ch/GRAC/) in the Centre Médical Universitaire of the Université de Genève (http://www.unige.ch/).
We're planning to use the FreeSurfer software suite (or more precisely, the surface-based stream ) in a project that aims to synthesize brain models for teaching through rapid-prototyping (like 3D-printing) out of brain MRI, thus by-passing and giving an alternative to using dead human bodies for teaching.
I have 2 questions relative to this project : - Does anyone here have recommendations (or references) about MRI sequence parameters to obtain best contrast for optimal segmentation ? Our preliminary test data wasn't top quality indeed, and we're planning to obtain new datasets. Does anyone has some tips to give us ?
- The download page mentions that the source code will be soon released (https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Download?action=highlight&valu...), but that we'll have to wait until all non-releasable modules are replaced with open-source-able ones. How far has the OS'ing effort gone until now ? Most specifically, which modules are already OS'able ? And how much effort remain to be done ? When will we see an OS'ed version ? Under what license are those sources going to be released ? (GPL, BSD, other ?)
Thank you and have a nice day.
- Ivan Topolsky -