Caret Reference Manual

Caret (Computerized Anatomical Reconstruction and Editing Toolkit) is a software package created by the Van Essen Laboratory for visualizing, editing, analyzing, and flattening cortical surface reconstructions. Caret runs on IRIX (Sgi), Macintosh OSX (requires darwin), Solaris (Sun), and Linux platforms.

Introduction/About Caret

Installation Instructions
Running Caret

Source Code Notes

The Caret Window

The Menu Bar

Dialogs

Add Contour Cells Dialog
Apply Deformation Dialog
Apply/Edit Transformation Matrix Dialog
Areal Estimation Map Dialog
Assign Nodes Dialog
Automatic Rotation Dialog
Connect to Surface Program Dialog
Connect to Volume Program Dialog
Contour Alignment Dialog
Contour Scaling Dialog
Contour Section Dialog
Create Curvature Dialog
Create Distortion Dialog
Create Sulcal Depth Map Dialog
Deform Flat Map Dialog
Deform Spherical Map Dialog
Draw Border Dialog
Draw Contour Dialog
Flat Automatic Cycle Dialog
Import Contours Dialog
Import Surface and Contours Dialog
Interpolate REF to AUX Dialog
Map Talairach Focus Dialog
Metric Dialog
Metric File Selection Dialog
Metrics to Paint Dialog
Metrics to RGB Paint Dialog
Overlay/Underlay Selection Dialog
Paint File Column Selection for Loading a Paint File Dialog
Paint File Column Selection for Surface Painting Dialog
Parameters for Volume Program Dialog
Probabilistic Atlas Control Dialog
Reconstruct Contours Dialog
Record as MPEG Dialog
Resection Dialog
RGB Paint Control Dialog
Select Sections Dialog
Set Scale Dialog
Spec File Dialog
Spherical Automatic Cycle Dialog
Surface Shape Dialog
Surface Shape File Selection Dialog

Utility Programs

Caret Questions or How do I...?
Caret Environment Variables
Caret File Types
Caret File Formats
Caret Specification File Tags
Notes for the Linux Users
List of Changes to Caret