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QSIPrep: Preprocessing and analysis of q-space images =====================================================
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Full documentation at https://qsiprep.readthedocs.io
About -----
QSIPrep configures pipelines for processing diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI) data. The main features of this software are
1. A BIDS-app approach to preprocessing nearly all kinds of modern diffusion MRI data. 2. Automatically generated preprocessing pipelines that correctly group, distortion correct, motion correct, denoise, coregister and resample your scans, producing visual reports and QC metrics. 3. A novel motion correction algorithm that works on DSI and random q-space sampling schemes
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.. _preprocessing_def:
Preprocessing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The preprocessing pipelines are built based on the available BIDS inputs, ensuring that fieldmaps are handled correctly. The preprocessing workflow performs head motion correction, susceptibility distortion correction, MP-PCA denoising, coregistration to T1w images, spatial normalization using ANTs_ and tissue segmentation.
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Reconstruction ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The outputs from the :ref:preprocessing_def pipelines can be reconstructed in many other
software packages.
We recommend passing QSIPrep derivatives along to
QSIRecon _,
which provides a curated set of reconstruction workflows
that can run ODF/FOD reconstruction, tractography, Fixel estimation and regional
connectivity.
Note ----
The QSIPrep pipeline uses much of the code from fMRIPrep. It is critical to note that the similarities in the code **do not imply that the authors of fMRIPrep in any way endorse or support this code or its pipelines**.