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Simulating Brain Stimulation

Perform simulations of brain stimulation such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and magnetic transcranial stimulation (TMS).

1. Download SCIRun 5.0 alpha
2. Download the BrainStimulator Toolkit

Overview
Documentation
Support

Overview

BrainStimulator is a set of networks that are used in SCIRun to perform simulations of brain stimulation such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and magnetic transcranial stimulation (TMS).

Its modular implementation builds upon the new release of SCIRun 5.0 and following release versions. No additional software is needed to set up, compute, visualize and analyze simulations and their results. The BrainStimulator-specific modules can be visually and functionally combined to form networks including other more generic SCIRun5 modules.

A variety of networks performing a typical workflow of tDCS and TMS simulations are provided with the package. The package also includes a toy model (Mickey Mouse) designed to learn more about BrainStimulator capabilities as well as a realistic head model (Colin27) available in different degrees of detail. The Colin27 head model contains state of the art modeling features and comes with a variety of different anatomical atlases (FreeSurfer, Talairach and other brain parcellations).

TMS and tDCS simulations performed with BrainStimulator can be analyzed statistically within the package. Individual head models can be easily integrated into SCIRun5 while its entire functionally is at the User's disposal including common input and output formats (NRRD, Matlab, ASCII, etc).



BrainStimulator Acknowledgement
 BrainStimulator License
CIBC Acknowledgement


Acknowledgement: BrainStimulator is an Open Source software project that is principally funded through the SCI Institute's NIH/NIGMS CIBC Center. Please use the following acknowledgment and send us references to any publications, presentations, or successful funding applications that make use of NIH/NIGMS CIBC software or data sets.

"This project was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant numbers P41 GM103545 and R24 GM136986.”





BrainStimulator License

BrainStimulator is available for free and open source under the MIT License

The MIT License Copyright (c) 2010 Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah. License for the specific language governing rights and limitations under Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.



NIH/NIGMS Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing Acknowledgment


CIBC software and the data sets provided on this web site are Open Source software projects that are principally funded through the SCI Institute's NIH/NIGMS CIBC SCIRun License For us to secure the funding that allows us to continue providing this software, we must have evidence of its utility. Thus we ask users of our software and data to acknowledge us in their publications and inform us of these publications. Please use the following acknowledgment and send us references to any publications, presentations, or successful funding applications that make use of the NIH/NIGMS CIBC software or data sets we provide.

"This project was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant numbers P41 GM103545 and R24 GM136986.”

Documentation

We have created a manual and set of networks with data for users getting started with using the Brain Stimulator. Please download the release of this package from our github site.


Tutorials

BrainStimulator Tutorial pdf button



Support

SCIRun/BrainStimulator Mailing Lists
Reporting Bugs and Feature Requests

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