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From Vista Lab Manual

This manual documents the MR software tools and experimental methods used in the Wandell and Grill-Spector labs.

Use the menu at the left to navigate through the manual sections.

• The majority of this manual describes the software tools we use to process our measurements. We call the software tools mrVista (Mister Vista). Manual pages that describe the mrVista software and analytical methods are Anatomical, Functional, DTI, Visualization, and Stimulus.

• For more than a decade, we have shared software from our lab freely. Downloads are available at Software. The software is written mainly in Matlab. There are some additional utilities written in C++/VTK. All of the software runs on Windows/XP and on Linux (Red Hat). Most of the software runs on Apple computers.

• Manual pages specific to Stanford, and not of general interest, are Administrative, and Vision Lunch.

References

To see examples of how we use the software, consult some of our recent research papers.

1. Visual Field Map Clusters in Human Cortex
   Wandell, A. A. Brewer and R.F. Dougherty (2005)
   Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society London, v. 360, pp. 693-707.

1. Functional organization of human occipital-callosal fiber tracts.
   Robert F. Dougherty, Michal Ben-Shachar, Roland Bammer, Alyssa Brewer, Brian Wandell (2005).
   PNAS, v. 102, no. 20, pp. 7350-7355.

1. Visual field representations and locations of visual areas V1/2/3 in human visual cortex
   R. F. Dougherty, V. M. Koch, A. A. Brewer, B. Fischer, J. Modersitzki and B. A. Wandell (2003).
   Journal of Vision, 3(10),586-598, DOI 10.1167/3.10.1.

Major contributions to the current version of the code were made by Robert Dougherty, David Heeger, William Press, David Ress, Rory Sayres, Alex Wade, and Brian Wandell. Also, Geoff Boynton, Serge Dumoulin, Stephen Engel, Rehan Kahn, and Allen Poirson all contributed. If your name is missing please let me know.

In addition to our lab at Stanford, the code is being used at Royal Holloway (Morland), Smith-Kettlewell (Wade), Weizmann Institute of Science (Sobel) and perhaps other places. Dave Heeger has branched a separate NYU version of the functional MR tools.