mrview

Synopsis

The MRtrix image viewer.

Usage

mrview [ options ] [ image ... ]
  • image: An image to be loaded.

Description

Any images listed as arguments will be loaded and available through the image menu, with the first listed displayed initially. Any subsequent command-line options will be processed as if the corresponding action had been performed through the GUI.

Note that because images loaded as arguments (i.e. simply listed on the command-line) are opened before the GUI is shown, subsequent actions to be performed via the various command-line options must appear after the last argument. This is to avoid confusion about which option will apply to which image. If you need fine control over this, please use the -load or -select_image options. For example:

$ mrview -load image1.mif -interpolation 0 -load image2.mif -interpolation 0

or

$ mrview image1.mif image2.mif -interpolation 0 -select_image 2 -interpolation 0

Options

View options

  • -mode index Switch to view mode specified by the integer index, as per the view menu.
  • -load image Load image specified and make it current.
  • -reset Reset the view according to current image. This resets the FOV, projection and focus.
  • -fov value Set the field of view, in mm.
  • -focus x,y,z or boolean Either set the position of the crosshairs in scanner coordinates, with the new position supplied as a comma-separated list of floating-point values or show or hide the focus cross hair using a boolean value as argument.
  • -voxel x,y,z Set the position of the crosshairs in voxel coordinates, relative the image currently displayed. The new position should be supplied as a comma-separated list of floating-point values.
  • -volume idx Set the volume index for the image displayed, as a comma-separated list of integers.
  • -plane index Set the viewing plane, according to the mappping 0: sagittal; 1: coronal; 2: axial.
  • -lock yesno Set whether view is locked to image axes (0: no, 1: yes).
  • -select_image index Switch to image number specified, with reference to the list of currently loaded images.
  • -autoscale Reset the image scaling to automatically determined range.
  • -interpolation boolean Enable or disable image interpolation in main image.
  • -colourmap index Switch the image colourmap to that specified, as per the colourmap menu.
  • -noannotations Hide all image annotation overlays
  • -comments boolean Show or hide image comments overlay.
  • -voxelinfo boolean Show or hide voxel information overlay.
  • -orientationlabel boolean Show or hide orientation label overlay.
  • -colourbar boolean Show or hide colourbar overlay.
  • -imagevisible boolean Show or hide the main image.
  • -intensity_range min,max Set the image intensity range to that specified.

Window management options

  • -size width,height Set the size of the view area, in pixel units.
  • -position x,y Set the position of the main window, in pixel units.
  • -fullscreen Start fullscreen.
  • -exit Quit MRView.

Debugging options

  • -fps Display frames per second, averaged over the last 10 frames. The maximum over the last 3 seconds is also displayed.

Other options

  • -norealign do not realign transform to near-default RAS coordinate system (the default behaviour on image load). This is useful to inspect the image and/or header contents as they are actually stored in the header, rather than as MRtrix interprets them.

Overlay tool options

  • -overlay.load image Loads the specified image on the overlay tool.
  • -overlay.opacity value Sets the overlay opacity to floating value [0-1].
  • -overlay.interpolation_on Enables overlay image interpolation.
  • -overlay.interpolation_off Disables overlay image interpolation.
  • -overlay.colourmap index Sets the colourmap of the overlay as indexed in the colourmap dropdown menu.

ROI editor tool options

  • -roi.load image Loads the specified image on the ROI editor tool.
  • -roi.opacity value Sets the overlay opacity to floating value [0-1].

Tractography tool options

  • -tractography.load tracks Load the specified tracks file into the tractography tool.
  • -tractography.thickness value Line thickness of tractography display, [-1.0, 1.0], default is 0.0.
  • -tractography.opacity value Opacity of tractography display, [0.0, 1.0], default is 1.0.
  • -tractography.slab value Slab thickness of tractography display, in mm. -1 to turn off crop to slab.
  • -tractography.tsf_load tsf Load the specified tractography scalar file.
  • -tractography.tsf_range range Set range for the tractography scalar file. Requires tractography.tsf_load already provided. RangeMin,RangeMax
  • -tractography.tsf_thresh thresh Set thresholds for the tractography scalar file. Requires tractography.tsf_load already provided. ThresholdMin,ThesholdMax

ODF tool options

  • -odf.load_sh image Loads the specified SH-based ODF image on the ODF tool.
  • -odf.load_tensor image Loads the specified tensor image on the ODF tool.
  • -odf.load_dixel image Loads the specified dixel-based image on the ODF tool.

Fixel plot tool options

  • -fixel.load image Load a fixel file (any file inside a fixel directory, or an old .msf / .msh legacy format file) into the fixel tool.

Connectome tool options

  • -connectome.init image Initialise the connectome tool using a parcellation image.
  • -connectome.load path Load a matrix file into the connectome tool.

Screen Capture tool options

  • -capture.folder path Set the output folder for the screen capture tool.
  • -capture.prefix string Set the output file prefix for the screen capture tool.
  • -capture.grab Start the screen capture process.

Standard options

  • -info display information messages.
  • -quiet do not display information messages or progress status.
  • -debug display debugging messages.
  • -force force overwrite of output files. Caution: Using the same file as input and output might cause unexpected behaviour.
  • -nthreads number use this number of threads in multi-threaded applications (set to 0 to disable multi-threading)
  • -failonwarn terminate program if a warning is produced
  • -help display this information page and exit.
  • -version display version information and exit.

References

Tournier, J.-D.; Calamante, F. & Connelly, A. MRtrix: Diffusion tractography in crossing fiber regions. Int. J. Imaging Syst. Technol., 2012, 22, 53-66


Author: J-Donald Tournier (jdtournier@gmail.com), Dave Raffelt (david.raffelt@florey.edu.au), Robert E. Smith (robert.smith@florey.edu.au), Max Pietsch (maximilian.pietsch@kcl.ac.uk), Thijs Dhollander (thijs.dhollander@gmail.com)

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2008-2017 the MRtrix3 contributors.

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MRtrix is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

For more details, see http://www.mrtrix.org/.