While MRtrix3 is primarily intended to be used for the analysis of diffusion MRI data, at its fundamental level it is designed as a general-purpose library for the analysis of any type of MRI data. As such, it provides a back-end to simplify a large number of operations, many of which will be invisible to the end-user. Specifically, MRtrix3 features:
- a consistent command-line interface, with inline documentation for each command
- universal import/export capabilities when :ref:`image_file_formats` across all MRtrix3 applications.
- :ref:`multi_file_image_file_formats` to load multiple images as a single multi-dimensional dataset
- efficient use of :ref:`unix_pipelines` for complex workflows
- high performance on modern multi-core systems, with multi-threading used extensively throughout MRtrix3;
- available on all common modern operating systems (GNU/Linux, MacOSX, Windows);
- a consistent :ref:`image_coord_system` with most operations performed in scanner/world coordinates where possible.