= T1-MRI Segmentation with BrainVISA =
It is not the purpose of Brainstorm tutorials to teach you how to use BrainVISA. But most Brainstorm users are lost when it reaches to the segmentation of the MRI. So here is a short introduction of the BrainVISA T1 Pipeline.

To extract head and cortex meshes from a T1 MRI, you can also try to use: [[Tutorials/SegBrainSuite|BrainSuite]] or [[Tutorials/SegFreeSurfer|FreeSurfer]].

== Installation ==
 * Download the latest version of BrainVISA from [[http://brainvisa.info|http://brain.info]].
 * Install it on your computer by following the instructions on the [[http://brainvisa.info/download.html#installation|download page]].
 * Start BrainVISA
 * You'll have to create a database for saving your files: this will be either asked at startup, or you'll have to !BrainVISA menu > Preferences:
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  * Click on Add, and create a directory with is __not__ in any Brainstorm directory. For example:
   * __Windows__: My Documents\brainvisa_db\
   * __Linux__: /home/username/brainvisa_db/
   * MacOS: Documents/brainvisa_db/
  * Click on Ok.
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