DBP:Harvard:Software:Minutes:3-8-06

DTI Meeting 3/8/2006

Bugs:

• Scalar maps: slicer26 crashes when created scalar maps from tensor volumes; this can be addressed at a DTI friday meeting (3/17 is the next one)
• Masks: masks created in DTMRI are too aggressive, while masks created using Stephan's LSDI reconstruction are ideal. Doug met with Raul and added to BugTracker.
• Seeding Parameters: changes to settings in DTMRI > Tracts > Settings do not affect tracts seeded from ROIs; added to BugTracker and assigned to Raul.

Software Testing:

• there are still discrepancies between the DTMRI and Matlab results, and between DTMRI and LSDIrecon; see most recent data (~2 months old) here
• PNL needs to have accurate calcalations before converting data to NRRD; this will also be addressed at the next DTI Friday meeting

Reading Compressed Volumes:

• high priority as PNL needs to conserve disk space for new data (which is ultimately used by everybody)
• Writing compressed files is already supported for structural and labelmap volumes

Scanning:

• Application was submitted yesterday; it should be about 10 days before we can start scheduling time to scan.

Diffusion Spectrum Imaging

• CF went to talk yesterday at MGH on DSI; will be inviting the speaker here in 2-3 weeks
• See related paper here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16247738&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum