Installation

Installation#

Prerequisites#

BART requires the GCC compiler, the FFTW library, the BLAS/LAPACK library and optionally CUDA for NVIDIA GPU computing. (see cudaon{.interpreted-text role=”ref”})

The software can be used in combination with Matlab, python or octave.

There is limited support for reading Cartesian data encoded with the ISMRM Raw Data format when linking with the ISMRMRD library (version 0.5.2) (http://ismrmrd.sourceforge.net/).

In the following, the symbol $ indicates a shell prompt. Please do not type $ when entering commands.

Linux#

BART should run on any recent Linux distribution.

To install the required libraries on Debian and Ubuntu run:

$ sudo apt-get install gcc make libfftw3-dev liblapacke-dev

Mac OS X#

Xcode command line tools are required and can be installed by running:

$ xcode-select --install

Mac installation with Macports#

Follow the instruction at https://www.macports.org/install.php to install Macports.

To install the required libraries, run:

$ sudo port install fftw-3-single gcc6 openblas

Mac installation with Homebrew#

To install Homebrew (http://brew.sh), run:

$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

To install BART, run :

$ brew install homebrew/science/bart

Windows#

You can use BART on Windows using Cygwin:

https://www.cygwin.com/

Install Cygwin and select the following packages:

Devel: gcc, make
Math: fftw3, fftw3-doc, libfftw3-devel, libfftw3_3
Math: liblapack-devel, liblapack-doc, liblapack0

Then use the cygwin shell to compile BART as described below.

An alternative to using Cygwin is a virtual machine with Linux.

Download and Compilation#

If you are a git user, you can simply clone our public repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/mrirecon/bart

Otherwise, please download the latest version as a zip file from Github:

and unpack it somewhere on your computer.

Open a terminal window and enter the bart directory (the top-level directory with the Makefile in it). To build the reconstruction tools type:

$ make

If you have installed the ISMRMRD library version 0.5.2, you can also build the ISMRM raw data import tool:

$ make ismrmrd

Optional: Turn on GPU acceleration {#cudaon}#

To turn on GPU acceleration using CUDA, you can toggle the CUDA flag in the Makefile:

CUDA=1
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