TY - JOUR T1 - <em>MRtrix3</em>: A fast, flexible and open software framework for medical image processing and visualisation JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/551739 SP - 551739 AU - J-Donald Tournier AU - Robert Smith AU - David Raffelt AU - Rami Tabbara AU - Thijs Dhollander AU - Maximilian Pietsch AU - Daan Christiaens AU - Ben Jeurissen AU - Chun-Hung Yeh AU - Alan Connelly Y1 - 2019/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/02/15/551739.abstract N2 - MRtrix3 is an open-source, cross-platform software package for medical image processing, analysis and visualization, with a particular emphasis on the investigation of the brain using diffusion MRI. It is implemented using a fast, modular and flexible general-purpose code framework for image data access and manipulation, enabling efficient development of new applications, whilst retaining high computational performance and a consistent command-line interface between applications. In this article, we provide a high-level overview of the features of the MRtrix3 framework and general-purpose image processing applications provided with the software. ER -