CARET is a software application for the structural and functional analysis of the cerebral and cerebellar cortex. CARET is developed in the Van Essen Laboratory in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the Washington University School of Medicine

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 in St. Louis, Missouri

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CARET is a free, open-source application distributed in both binary and source formats under the GNU General Public License

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. CARET runs on FreeBSD

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, Linux

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, Mac OS X

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, and Microsoft Windows

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CARET's capabilities

• Analysis of group anatomical differences using sulcal depth morphometry.
• Display of activation foci.
• Generation of flat, inflated, spherical surfaces.
• Mapping of fMRI volumes onto surfaces.
• Surface reconstruction from anatomical MRI volumes using the SureFit algorithm.
• Surface reconstruction from contours.
• Surface-based registration.
• Visualization of contours, surfaces, and volumes.

Related Software

SuMS Database and WebCaret provided on-line storage of surface and volume-based data along with web-based visualization of the data.

See also

• AFNI
  AFNI
  Analysis of Functional NeuroImages is an open-source environment for processing and displaying functional MRI data—a technique for mapping human brain activity....
  
  
• FMRIB Software Library
  FMRIB Software Library
  The FMRIB Software Library is a software library containing image analysis and statistical tools for functional, structural and diffusion MRI brain imaging data....
  
  
• FreeSurfer
  FreeSurfer
  FreeSurfer is an MRI brain imaging software package developed by the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. It is an important tool in functional brain mapping and facilitates the visualization of the functional regions of the highly-folded cerebral...
  
  
• Neuroimaging
  Neuroimaging
  Neuroimaging includes the use of various techniques to either directly or indirectly image the structure, function/pharmacology of the brain...
  
  
• Neuroinformatics
  Neuroinformatics
  Neuroinformatics is a research field concerned with the organization of neuroscience data by the application of computational models and analytical tools. These areas of research are important for the integration and analysis of increasingly large-volume, high-dimensional, and fine-grain...
  
  
• SPM
  SPM
  - Education :* Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya* Saint Peter-Marian High School, Holden, Massachusetts...