Turbo-BrainVoyager

Turbo-BrainVoyager (TBV) is a highly optimized, easy-to- use software package for the real-time analysis and dynamic visualization of functional magnetic resonance imaging data sets. Turbo-BrainVoyager allows to observe the working brain "online" by incrementally computing statistical maps as contrasts of a General Linear Model (GLM). The program also performs real-time pre- rocessing, including 3D motion correction, spatial Gaussian smoothing and temporal high-pass filtering (drift removal). TBV visualizes the data in various formats including a multi-slice (matrix) view, a single (zoomed) slice view and a anatomical volume view. the data can also be visualized on 3D data sets in AC-PC and Talairach space as well as on rendered meshes of the cortical sheet. Statistical results are shown as real-time activation movies on all views, including on rotatable and zoomable brain models.