Neuro_Family Software
Neuro_Echo aids analysis of double-echo MR brain scans from the GE Signa
imager. The program uses axial scans to segment the brain scans into gray
matter, white matter and CSF. (Platforms: Sun Sparcstation 10 or 20)
Neuro_Echo aids analysis of double-echo MR brain scans from the GE Signa
imager. The program uses axial scans to segment the brain scans into gray
matter, white matter and CSF. The product offers a number of advantages:
a.Downloads images from network or tape.
b.Provides two types of standardization for the image format
by reslicing the image stack either
1.parallel to the modified canthomeatal plane (defined with
the help of the lenses of the eye and the internal auditory
canals) or
2.parallel to the bicommissural plane, which contains the
anterior and posterior commissures and is perpendicular to
the interhemispheric fissure.
c.Finds the intracranial contours automatically.
d.Segments the brain automatically into gray/white matter and CSF.
e.Provides output that is downloadable for further statistical
analysis.
f.Facilitates manual tracing of selected features.
Neuro_SPGR can analyze thin-slice (1.5mm) SPGR images of the brain. The
program provides the same features as Neuro_Echo, but it does reslicing
only in the bicommissural mode.
Neuro_Lobe separates an SPGR image stack into the hemispheres; the frontal,
parietal,temporal and occipital lobes; the cerebellum; and the area
containing the basal ganglia. Demarcation of the brain into lobes follows
our computerization of a protocol developed by the BU Neuroanatomy group.
This package is expected to be available for dissemination in the second
half of 1996.