Dear Sir
I am a student in Tel-Aviv University and i work on MRI data of Multiple Sclerosis we would like to use freesurfer to find out cortical thickness.
do you have a version that can run on windows (we have it in the hospital).
i have mac at home but i don't know how to script- maybe do you have a gui version?
we are medical student with no knowledge of all the hardware-we would like a simple tool to measure the cortex.
can you help me?
thank you
Asaf A
On Saturday 06 September 2008 16:50:53 asaf achiron wrote:
do you have a version that can run on windows (we have it in the hospital).
No, sorry - FreeSurfer is Linux and Mac only. We have looked at Windows porting (using 'cygwin') but for now there is no Windows version.
The best solution would be for you to take a "spare" Windows box and either reformat and install Linux, or re-partition and install Linux (creating a dual-boot machine).
You could, in a pinch, if you have a Windows box with enough free space, install VMware player (it's free, search on google) and search for a CentOS Linux image. This will allow you to run Linux from within Windows. It's not recommended as the hardware requirements on the host (Windows machine) are quite high, but it is doable.
i have mac at home but i don't know how to script- maybe do you have a gui version?
FreeSurfer isn't "run" from a GUI. You will need to use a terminal (but it's quite straightforward -- see the FreeSurfer wiki). You should be able to run it on your mac at home, provided:
* it has an intel CPU running Mac OS X 10.4 (tiger) or 10.5 (leopard) * has at the very least 1GB of RAM, although I'd not recommend this. 2GB is really the minimum to be comfortable.
Hope this helps...
Cheers -=R
freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
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Rudolph Pienaar