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Scanbuddy: fMRI motion plotting and SNR estimation at scan acquisition

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a powerful research and clinical tool for in vivo imaging of human brain function.Scanbuddy is containerized software that produces motion plots at the time of scan acquisition.Users should have a machine separate from the scanner host PC with its own display monitor that is capable of running Linux and Docker.Users can set up auto exporting from the scanner host PC via a Samba share mount for BOLD scans.With auto exporting, the scanner will automatically send reconstructed DICOMs to both the scanner host PC and the Scanbuddy machine.Scanbuddy uses the excellent dcm2niix (Li et al., 2016) and AFNI (Cox, 1996) packages for DICOM conversion and computing motion estimates.Scanbuddy was developed in a linux environment and can handle repetition times as fast as 0.6 seconds.

Source: The Journal of Open Source Software

DOI: 10.21105/joss.08119

Authors: Daniel J. Asay, Randy L. Buckner, Timothy M. O’Keefe

Institutions: Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

Language: English

Topic: Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications

Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Faculty of Arts and Sciences

OpenAlex ID: W4414537370