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This website has been deprecated and exists as an archive only.

The TORTOISE website has been moved to https://tortoise.nibib.nih.gov.

For any information about TORTOISE generation V3.x.x, please refer to the new website.

Quantitative MRI Group

In this website you will find information about our diffusion MRI software package TORTOISE, as well as the DTI activities related to The NIH MRI Study of Normal Brain Development for which we serve as the diffusion processing center. More information about this study is available at www.NIH-PediatricMRI.org.

7.30.21: The above URL is no longer active. More info about NIHPD can be found at https://www.mcgill.ca/bic/software/tools-data-analysis/anatomical-mri/atlases/nihpd