Specifically, I followed the Mac installation and set-up instructions described here.Īfter following the download steps, I opened a Mac terminal window and ran this code to set up my FreeSurfer environment. This was a pretty quick and relatively painless process. In my case, I installed and ran FreeSurfer locally on my MacBook Pro. If you have access to a university’s computing cluster, they might already have FreeSurfer installed - so you might want to check this first. FreeSurfer is open source software for processing and analyzing (human) brain MRI scans. Start with FreeSurfer.įirst, download FreeSurfer, if you don’t already have the program. If you already frequently use FreeSurfer - and maybe have already run recon-all on your T1s - then you can skip to the end of my tutorial, or just check out the layer fMRI blog for the NIFTI to STL file command.įor the novices, let’s get started: 1. This tutorial is intended for folks who are novices in FreeSurfer. I’ll also talk about the companies I’ve tried for 3D printing (as our lab doesn’t have a 3D printer, and my university’s “public” 3D printers have been shut down due to COVID). Here, however, I’ll note the few things I had to do slightly differently from their tutorial to get everything to work.
My tutorial is adapted from this one on the layer fMRI blog. My fiance’s 3D-printed brain, a fun birthday present!
