mk_adni_phantom(1)

💖 mk_adni_phantom — bestie's guide to the ADNI phantom maker 💖

okay so you're in the mk_adni_phantom(1) manual page, part of the The Computational Morphometry Toolkit (that's CMTK, the whole family of tools, we love her). grab a strawberry 🍓 and let's go.

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✨ NAME ✨

mk_adni_phantom — generate an ADNI phantom image 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mk_adni_phantom OutputImage

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically bestie, this tool generates an image of the ADNI structural imaging calibration phantom — which is also known as the Magphan EMR051. no cap, that's the whole thing. it makes the phantom. iconic. 👑

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

🌈 Global Toolkit Options (these are shared by all CMTK tools, so they're like the group chat rules everyone follows)

• --help — writes a list of the basic command line options to standard output.
• --help-all — writes the complete list, basic and advanced command line options, to standard output. the full tea. ☕
• --wiki — writes the list of command line options to standard output in MediaWiki markup.
• --man — writes man page source in 'nroff' markup to standard output.
• --version — writes the toolkit version to standard output.
• --echo — writes the current command line to standard output.
• --verbose-level <integer> — sets the verbosity level.
• --verbose, -v — increments the verbosity level by 1. > heads up bestie: this one is deprecated, it's only supported for backward compatibility. it still works, but it's giving legacy energy 💀
• --threads <integer> — sets the maximum number of parallel threads (for POSIX threads and OpenMP). go parallel, slay. 🔥

👑 Main Options (the main character options)

• --resolution <double> — sets the output image resolution in [mm]. [Default: 1] ✨
• --labels — draws each marker sphere with a label value defined by its index in the marker table. otherwise, the estimated T1 is used instead. pick your fighter. 🎀
• --write-labels <string> — optional path to write a text file with label names. [Default: NONE]
• --write-landmarks <string> — optional path to write a text file with landmark locations. [Default: NONE]

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🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

Torsten Rohlfing, with contributions from Michael P. Hasak, Greg Jefferis, Calvin R. Maurer, Daniel B. Russakoff, and Yaroslav Halchenko. the whole squad showed up fr fr 💖

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📜 LICENSE 📜

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html

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😭 BUGS 😭

report bugs at http://nitrc.org/projects/cmtk/ — not me being the bug reporter, but okay, do it bestie.

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⭐ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ⭐

CMTK is developed with support from the NIAAA under Grant AA021697, National Consortium on Alcohol and Neurodevelopment in Adolescence (N-CANDA): Data Integration Component. From April 2009 through September 2011, CMTK development and maintenance was supported by the NIBIB under Grant EB008381. funding era, we stan 🫶

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🧚 this was CMTK 3.3.1p2, dated Jun 24 2026 — thanks for reading the mk_adni_phantom(1) manual with me, go forth and generate phantom images, xoxo 💜🎀✨