Created by Michel Thiebaut de Schotten and Chris Foulon.
BCBtoolkit is not approved for clinical use.
BCBtoolkit is the property of Chris Foulon and Michel Thiebaut de Schotten.
Contact : [email protected] or [email protected]

This software is compatible with 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10 versions of Mac OSX and Linux(ArchLinux, (K)Ubuntu 14.04/16.04, Debian 8 tested).

Thanks for citing: 
Thiebaut de Schotten, M., et al. (2014) Damage to white
matter pathways in subacute and chronic spatial neglect: a group study and 
2 single-case studies with complete virtual "in vivo" tractography dissection. 
Cereb Cortex 24, 691-706.
Thiebaut de Schotten M., et al.(2011) Atlasing location, asymmetry and inter-subject variability of white matter tracts in the human brain with MR diffusion tractography. Neuroimage 54, 49-59.
Thiebaut de Schotten M., et al. (2012) Monkey to human comparative anatomy of the frontal lobe association tracts. Cortex 48, 82-96.
Catani M et al. (2012) Short frontal lobe connections of the human brain. Cortex 48, 273-291.


This application uses FSL library created by the FMRIB, Oxford, UK. 
For more information about FSL : http://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/fslwiki/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21979382
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19059349
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15501092

Disconnectome maps mode uses Trackvis library http://trackvis.org

Cortical Thickness and Normalisation use ANTs (Advanced Normalization Tools) http://stnava.github.io/ANTs

Enantiomorphic transformation : Nachev et al. (2008) Enantiomorphic normalization of focally lesioned brains

#### Practical information: ####

The folder of this application includes a default tracts folder.

For OSX users : 

To launch the BCBtoolkit, double-click on the script : BCBToolKit.command

For Linux users : 

To launch the BCBtoolkit, double-click on the script : BCBToolKit.sh (Or launch it in console if .sh scripts are not directly executable by double-click on your OS) 

--------- IMPORTANT ---------
Be careful with file extension, this application recognises only nifti (i.e.: .nii) and compressed nifti (i.e.: .nii.gz) extensions.
Do not use files or directories containing space, tabulation or parenthesis.