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by unsrsly 1898 days ago
> No such thing exists for fMRI, at minimum you need to buy a 3rd party processing system and may need a research key on your scanner.

This is not the case, for example see the GE BrainWave software.

https://www.gehealthcare.com/products/advanced-visualization...

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Oh that's a good point, I should have been more clear (and honestly had forgotten BrainWave, you can option that with their DTI fibre stuff).

These systems are still not on the scanner (unless some of the latest acquisition stations support it? Still not on most of the deployed stuff) so typically another workstation is needed at least, this package does happens to be from the vendor. For anyone reading who finds this confusing, you can license on the machine the ability to do the "pulse sequences" you need, but it only handles the raw data - you typically need another step to process that into images you can use.

Otoh most of the people I know doing this on GE scanners used something else, but that could easily be sampling bias.