FreeSurfer

FreeSurfer is a set of tools for analysis and visualization of structural and functional brain imaging data. FreeSurfer contains a fully automatic structural imaging stream for processing cross sectional and longitudinal data.

Licensing

FreeSurfer licenses are free, but they use registrations to keep rough statistics on the number of users, which they can use in grants and presentations as a demonstration of their contribution to the neuroimaging community.

Please register for a licence here: https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/registration.html

Then to use your licence, set the FS_LICENSE environment variable with the path of the file, e.g. in your batch script:

export FS_LICENSE=${HOME}/.freesurfer_licence

More Information

For more information visit the FreeSurfer website.

Available Versions

These versions of FreeSurfer are available on the BEAR systems (BlueBEAR and BEAR Cloud VMs). These will be retained in accordance with our Applications Support and Retention Policy.