eprintid: 1489639 rev_number: 33 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/48/96/39 datestamp: 2016-05-04 15:42:06 lastmod: 2021-09-19 23:31:32 status_changed: 2017-06-08 13:14:00 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Melbourne, A creators_name: Toussaint, N creators_name: Owen, D creators_name: Simpson, I creators_name: Anthopoulos, T creators_name: De Vita, E creators_name: Atkinson, D creators_name: Ourselin, S title: NiftyFit: a Software Package for Multi-parametric Model-Fitting of 4D Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: C10 divisions: D17 divisions: FI6 divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F42 keywords: Cerebral blood flow, Diffusion, MRI, Relaxometry, g-ratio note: Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. abstract: Multi-modal, multi-parametric Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging is becoming an increasingly sophisticated tool for neuroimaging. The relationships between parameters estimated from different individual MR modalities have the potential to transform our understanding of brain function, structure, development and disease. This article describes a new software package for such multi-contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging that provides a unified model-fitting framework. We describe model-fitting functionality for Arterial Spin Labeled MRI, T1 Relaxometry, T2 relaxometry and Diffusion Weighted imaging, providing command line documentation to generate the figures in the manuscript. Software and data (using the nifti file format) used in this article are simultaneously provided for download. We also present some extended applications of the joint model fitting framework applied to diffusion weighted imaging and T2 relaxometry, in order to both improve parameter estimation in these models and generate new parameters that link different MR modalities. NiftyFit is intended as a clear and open-source educational release so that the user may adapt and develop their own functionality as they require. date: 2016-07 date_type: published official_url: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12021-016-9297-6 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Journal Article verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1119061 doi: 10.1007/s12021-016-9297-6 pii: 10.1007/s12021-016-9297-6 lyricists_name: Atkinson, David lyricists_name: Melbourne, Andrew lyricists_name: Ourselin, Sebastien lyricists_name: Owen, David lyricists_id: DATKI13 lyricists_id: AMMEL98 lyricists_id: SOURS59 lyricists_id: DOWEN23 actors_name: Melbourne, Andrew actors_id: AMMEL98 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Neuroinformatics volume: 14 number: 3 pagerange: 319-337 issn: 1559-0089 citation: Melbourne, A; Toussaint, N; Owen, D; Simpson, I; Anthopoulos, T; De Vita, E; Atkinson, D; Melbourne, A; Toussaint, N; Owen, D; Simpson, I; Anthopoulos, T; De Vita, E; Atkinson, D; Ourselin, S; - view fewer <#> (2016) NiftyFit: a Software Package for Multi-parametric Model-Fitting of 4D Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data. Neuroinformatics , 14 (3) pp. 319-337. 10.1007/s12021-016-9297-6 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s12021-016-9297-6>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1489639/1/Melbourne_art%253A10.1007%252Fs12021-016-9297-6.pdf