SCT: Spinal Cord Toolbox, an open-source software for processing spinal cord MRI data

@article{Leener2017SCTSC,
  title={SCT: Spinal Cord Toolbox, an open-source software for processing spinal cord MRI data},
  author={Benjamin De Leener and Simon L{\'e}vy and Sara M. Dupont and Vladimir S. Fonov and Nikola Stikov and D. Louis Collins and Virginie Callot and Julien Cohen-Adad},
  journal={NeuroImage},
  year={2017},
  volume={145},
  pages={24-43}
}
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