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Introduction to Working with MRI Data in Python

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An introduction to working with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data in Python.

About the Lesson

This lesson teaches:

  • a (re?) introduction to MR nomenclature - with BIDS
  • how neuroimaging data is stored
  • "converting" your data to BIDS
  • BIDS apps
  • queueing up neuroimaging pipelines

Episodes

# Episode Time Question(s)
1 Before we start 30 What is Python and why should I learn it?
2 From the scanner to our computer 30 What are the main MRI modalities?
What's the first step necessary to start working with MRI data?
3 Anatomy of a NIfTI 25 How are MRI data represented digitally?
4 Data organization with BIDS 45
5 Exploring open MRI datasets 45 How does standardizing neuroimaging data ease the data exploration process
6 BIDS derivatives 45

Contributing

We welcome all contributions to improve the lesson! Maintainers will do their best to help you if you have any questions, concerns, or experience any difficulties along the way.

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Please see the current list of issues for ideas for contributing to this repository. For making your contribution, we use the GitHub flow, which is nicely explained in the chapter Contributing to a Project in Pro Git by Scott Chacon. Look for the tag good_first_issue. This indicates that the maintainers will welcome a pull request fixing this issue.

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Authors

A list of contributors to the lesson can be found in AUTHORS

License

Instructional material from this lesson is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. Except where otherwise noted, example programs and software included as part of this lesson are made available under the MIT license. For more information, see LICENSE.

Citation

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