predictMS

Please click the following link to download a package containing sources, compiled executables and test data of predictMS (Professional Remagen Diagnostic Image Calculation Tool for MS) (Linux (zipped tarball) / Windows zip-File).

Before installation, please consult the following short introduction (PDF).

If you want to compare your myelin water content maps to a healthy control population, you might find our absolute myelin water content atlas (NII-File) helpful (31 healthy young volunteers normalised to the MNI152 template). Please be carefull as the values presented in the atlas are absolute, i.e. the relative myelin water content * total water content.

Remark: Please feel free to use any of those tools for your own research. However, we kindly ask you to reference the following papers:

H.Neeb, J. Schenk and B. Weber. MULTICENTRE ABSOLUTE MYELIN WATER CONTENT MAPPING: DEVELOPMENT OF A WHOLE BRAIN ATLAS AND APPLICATION TO LOW-GRADE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS. NeuroImage:Clinical 1(1): 2012, 121-130.

V. Tonkova, V. Arhelger, J. Schenk and H. Neeb. RAPID MYELIN WATER CONTENT MAPPING ON CLINICAL MR SYSTEMS. Z. Med. Phys 22(2): 2012, 133-142.

H. Neeb, V. Ermer, T. Stoecker, K. Zilles, and N.J. Shah. FAST HIGH-RESOLUTION MAPPING OF CEREBRAL WATER CONTENT WITH FULL BRAIN COVERAGE. NeuroImage 42:2008, 1094-1109.